Handscroll
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In East Asian art, handscrolls are long, narrow, horizontal works of painting and calligraphy rendered on paper or silk that often integrate both text and images. These works are meant to be viewed by holding the scroll flat and unfurling it, but more recently, contemporary artists have played with the form by creating versions on a monumental scale.
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42 Artworks
Zhao Mengfu
The Lotus Sutra, China, Yuan dynasty (1271, 1368), ca. 1315
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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