Ancient Chinese painting featuring a woman in traditional clothing, accompanied by black ink calligraphy and red seals, with a black lion-like creature on the right side.

Gu Kaizhi

顧愷之

Eastern Jin dynasty painter and politician (c. 344–406 CE)

Developed books about paintings, wrote poetry, and produced famous paintings like the Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies (that now exists in a Tang-dynasty copy).

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