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Definition of Calligraphists
1. calligraphist [n] - See also: calligraphist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calligraphists
Literary usage of Calligraphists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scraps from a Collector's Note Book: Being Notes on Some Chinese Painters of by Friedrich Hirth (1905)
"7), ie "Criticism of calligraphists", applied the three terms shön ... "mechanical
ability") to his calligraphists. This work appeared in the K'ai-ydan ..."
2. Native Sources for the History of Chinese Pictorial Art by Friedrich Hirth (1917)
"... in his essay on calligraphists. He was followed in the eighth century by Chang
Huai-huan, who completed the heretofore unsystematic grading of artists ..."
3. Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of a Collection of Japanese and Chinese by William Anderson (1886)
"Copies of seals of Japanese and Chinese painters and calligraphists, with supplement.
Gwa-kd sen-ran. 6 vols. 1740. ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1883)
"... are superb calligraphists. Silk was worn by officials, and in the better houses
leopard skins were common. The walls of Kanghwa-fu have a circuit of ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"The hack scribes and calligraphists were content to copy without understanding
it, often bungling or wresting the sense according to their very imperfect ..."
6. Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and the Period of the Renaissance by P. L. Jacob (1874)
"... Nuremberg, at Cologne, and at Rostock, imitated the example of Colard Mansion,
and from mere calligraphists became master-printers (1474—1479). ..."
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