‘O merry Spring! You laugh so beautifully’, wrote the 18th-century Polish poet Elżbieta Drużbacka, capturing the essence of the season in a single, clear line. Here we take a look at seven ...

Ride or walk, people in the paintings appreciate nature in spring. Commonly believed to be created by Zhan Ziqian, the work is a representative Chinese landscape painting in the genre's early stage.