Travelers Among Mountains and Streams
The benchmark of monumental landscape: a cliff fills the scroll, travellers tiny at the bottom
- Author
- Fan Kuan
- Style
- Song landscape painting — Mountains dwarf people: monumental ink landscape as an image of cosmic order
- Century
- 10th century
Made around the same time (±30 years)
- c. 1008 The Tale of Genji — Murasaki Shikibu · Kyoto
- c. 1000 Beowulf · England
- 1010 Shahnameh — Ferdowsi · Tus, Khorasan
- 1030–1061 Speyer Cathedral · Romanesque · Speyer
What was happening in the world
- 988 Christianization of Kievan Rus'
- c. 1000 Extinction of the elephant birds
- c. 1000 Stephen I, first king of Hungary
- 1006 Supernova SN 1006
- c. 1010 The Tale of Genji