Admonitions Scroll
AD 500-800 · Resource
A silk handscroll painting illustrating a Confucian text on court conduct, traditionally attributed to Gu Kaizhi but surviving as a 5th-8th-century copy. One of the earliest masterpieces of Chinese figure painting.
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Around 650
- Hijra (622)
- Muhammad (570)
- Tang dynasty (618)
- Sui dynasty reunifies China (581)
- Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain ends (600)
- Islamic Golden Age (750)
- Abbasid Caliphate founded (750)
- Tang dynasty begins (618)
- Death of Muhammad (632)
- Umayyad Caliphate begins (661)