Qianshen Bai

For 1,300 years, Chinese calligraphy was based on the elegant art of Wang Xizhi (A.D. 303-361). However, the seventeenth-century emergence of a style modeled on the rough, broken epigraphs of ancient bronzes and stone artifacts brought about a revolution in calligraphic taste. By the eighteenth century, this evolution led to the formation of the stele school of calligraphy, which continues...