Zong Bing

Zong Bing (Chinese: 宗炳; Wade–Giles: Tsung¹ Ping³, style name Shaowen 少文, 375 – 443^[1]) was a Chinese artist and musician who wrote the earliest text on landscape painting. He wrote that “Landscapes have a material existence, and yet reach also in a spiritual domain.”

References

^ Knechtges, D.R. (2014). Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol.3 & 4): A Reference Guide, Part Three & Four. Brill. p. 2349. ISBN 9789004271852. Retrieved 9 September 2017.

Leon Hurvitz 'Tsung Ping's Comments on Landscape Painting' Artibus Asiae, Vol. 32, No. 2/3 (1970), pp. 146–156
Bush, S. (1983) Tsung Ping's Essay on Painting Landscape and "Landscape Buddhism" of Mount Lu. In S. Bush & C. Murick, C. (Ed), Theories of the arts in China (pp. 132–164). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

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[brill-1] Knechtges, D.R. (2014). Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol.3 & 4): A Reference Guide, Part Three & Four. Brill. p. 2349. ISBN 9789004271852. Retrieved 9 September 2017.

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