Xu Yan & Zhang Zong Kang
Xu Yan is an 18th century Chinese artist. He created a cycle of very large paintings "Prosperous Suzhou" (more than 10 meters in length, more precisely - 1,000 200 40 cm), which depicts more than 10 thousand people, 2,140 buildings, 50 bridges, various ships and vessels ... was the artist Zhang Zong Kang. When the paintings appeared to the gaze of the emperor, he exclaimed: "This is wealth" and ordered to exhibit them first in the hall of the imperial palace, and then in the Academy of Arts - to worship and admire the talents of artists ...
