Zhang Lu(Chang Lu, traditional: 張路, simplified: 张路); ca. (1464-1538, though the National Palace Museum

National Palace Museum

The National Palace Museum is an art museum in Taipei. It is the national museum of the Republic of China, and has a permanent collection of over 677,687 pieces of ancient Chinese artifacts and artworks, making it one of the largest in the world. The collection encompasses over 8,000 years of...

 lists 1490-1563) was a Chinese

Chinese people

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 landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty

Ming Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...

 (1368–1644).

Zhang was born in Xiangfu (祥符 - present day Kaifeng

Kaifeng

Kaifeng , known previously by several names , is a prefecture-level city in east-central Henan province, Central China. Nearly 5 million people live in the metropolitan area...

 in the Henan

Henan

Henan , is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the central part of the country. Its one-character abbreviation is "豫" , named after Yuzhou , a Han Dynasty state that included parts of Henan...

 province). His style name was 'Tian Chi' (天馳) and his pseudonym was 'Ping Shan' (平山). He was a student of Wu Wei

Wu Wei (painter)

Wu Wei was a Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty .Wu was born in Wuchang in the Hubei province. His style names were 'Shiying and Ciweng' and his sobriquets were 'Lufu and Xiaoxian'. Wu painted landscapes and human figures in a strong, fluent, and uninhibited style, and took on many...

. Zhang followed the Zhe school of painting. He painted landscapes and human figures in a free and uninhibited style.