摘要
The fine arts of the Song Dynasty(960-1279) remain irresistible to people to this very day,its paintings still proving a particular hit with history and art buffs.One famous example here is A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains, the roughly 12-meterlong scroll painted by Wang Ximeng,a teenage prodigy who studied landscape painting at the Imperial Painting Academy and was taught personally by Emperor Huizong(1082-1135).