Four Great Painters of the Six Dynasties, namely: Cao Buxing [[曹不兴|曹不興|Cao2 Bu4 xing1]], Gu Kaizhi [[顾恺之|顧愷之|Gu4 Kai3 zhi1]], Lu Tanwei [[陆探微|陸探微|Lu4 Tan4 wei1]] and Zhang Sengyou [[张僧繇|張僧繇|Zhang1 Seng1 you2]]

the Six Dynasties period (222-589) between the Han and Tang dynasties