本书主要介绍了中国古代三位绘画大师顾恺之、吴道子、阎立本的绘画艺术以及几类重要绘画艺术：敦煌莫高窟、山水画、文人画和现代“中国画”。全书图文互动，史料丰富、翔实。

目录
Preface
Painting and the Culture Elite
Perceiving the World with the Eyes of Chinese Painters
From Gu Kaizhi to Wu Daozi
Tomb Chamber Paintings
The Most Romantic Painting
Communicatin of the Soul
Spring Outing
Emperors of Great Prosperity
Another Figure Painting
The Painting Saga
Famous Paintings Record of Past Dynasties
Desert Treasures
Buddhism Going East
Dunhuang Mogao Caves
Lucid Mountains and Remote Streams
Northenr Painters and Southen Painters
Emperor Huizong and His Peried
Along the River During the Qingming Festival
Panorama Shanshui
Su Shi and Mi Fu
Scholar Paintings
Zhao Mengfu and Four Masters of the Yuan Dynasty
Plum Blossom,Orchid Bamboo and Stone
The Southern and Northern Sects
Four Monks and Four Wangs
The End of Scholar Paintings and Famous Chinese Painters of Modern Times
Modern Chinese Paintings
Painters Studying Abroad
Revolutionary Realism
Modern and Post Modern