Zhao Mengfu's painting tradition dominates Yuan-Ming transition
1384
The literati painting style championed by Zhao Mengfu and the Four Masters of the Yuan - spare, calligraphic, drenched in scholarly nostalgia - survived the dynasty's fall and became the aesthetic canon of Ming court and garden alike. Chinese painting had chosen ink over color, suggestion over description, for the next five centuries.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.