Viśa Īrasangä (

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, in zh, t=尉遲乙僧, s=尉迟乙僧, first=t, w=Yü4-chʻih2 I3-sêng1, p=Yùchí Yǐsēng; ) was a Khotanese painter during the

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. He was also a Khotanese nobleman, but sometimes he is considered to be a Tocharian originated from the north of

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. His father Viśa Baysūna ( zh, t=尉遲跋質那, p=Yùchí Bázhìnà, labels=no) was well known by his paintings during the

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, he was referred to as "Yuchi the Elder" () by Chinese people. Thereby Īrasangä was known as "Yuchi the Younger" (). His painting skills were often compared with

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, even the famous painter

Wu Daozi Wu Daozi (c. 685–758 CE or c. 689–759 CE), also known as Daoxuan and Wu Tao Tzu, was a Chinese painter of the Tang dynasty. The British art historian Michael Sullivan considers him one of "the masters of the seventh century,"Iranian origin and had profound influence in Chinese

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. He was credited with having helped bring the Western technique of using a line of unvarying thickness to outline figures—the "iron-wire" line—to the Buddhist temples in many Chinese cities.

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Kuchean Kuchean (also known as Tocharian B or West Tocharian) was a Western member of Tocharian branch of Indo-European languages, extinct from ninth century. Once spoken in the Tarim Basin in Central Asia. Tocharian B shows an internal chronological de ...

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, traditionally attributed to Viśa Īrasangä.

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