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China: Chinese script. Tang Dynasty. Attributed to Yang Ning-Shi (873-954), student of Yan Zhenqing

China: Chinese script. Tang Dynasty. Attributed to Yang Ning-Shi (873-954), student of Yan Zhenqing

Yan Zhenqing’s style assimilated the essence of the past five hundred years, and almost all the calligraphers after him were more or less influenced by him. In his contemporary period, another great master calligrapher, Liu Gongquan, studied under him, and the much-respected Five-Dynasty Period calligrapher, Yang Ningshi (楊凝式) thoroughly inherited Yan Zhenqing’s style and made it bolder.

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