Xie He (artist)

Xie He (simplified Chinese: 谢赫; traditional Chinese: 謝赫; pinyin: Xiè Hè; Wade–Giles: Hsieh He; fl. 6th century) was a Chinese art historian, art critic, painter, and writer of the Liu Song and Southern Qi dynasties. He is known for the "six principles of Chinese painting", which was found in the preface to his book The Record of the Classification of Old Painters (古畫品錄).

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