Wu Daozi, << woo dow dzuh >> (A.D. 700’s), was a famous Chinese painter. His name is also spelled Wu Tao-tzu. He painted chiefly religious subjects on the walls of Buddhist and Taoist temples in the Chinese capital of Chang’an (now Xi’an). He usually worked on a very large scale in black and white. His murals were destroyed, and we can only imagine his style from descriptions and inferior copies. He was born near Luoyang, in Henan.
