Shitao (simplified Chinese: 石涛; traditional Chinese: 石濤, c. 1642 – 1707), born Zhu Ruoji (Chinese: 朱若極), was a Chinese Buddhist monk, calligrapher, painter and theoretician of the early Qing dynasty.[1][2] Alongside Bada Shanren, he was one of China's most famous Individualist painters of the early Qing dynsasty.[2]

References
change- ↑ Hay, Jonathan (2001). Shitao: Painting and Modernity in Early Qing China. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521393423.
- 1 2 "Shitao" on the Encyclopædia Britannica online. Archived 12 November 2022