Admonitions Scroll
AD 500-800 · Resource
A silk handscroll painting illustrating a Confucian text on court conduct, traditionally attributed to Gu Kaizhi but now dated to the 5th-8th century and possibly a later copy. One of the earliest masterpieces of Chinese figure painting.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 650
- Islamic Golden Age (750)
- Muhammad (570)
- Hijra (622)
- Tang dynasty (618)
- Arab conquest of the Maghreb (647)
- Muhammad's first revelation (610)
- Death of Muhammad (632)
- Battle of Yarmouk (636)
- Abbasid Caliphate founded (750)
- Fall of the Sasanian Empire (651)