Most people in the West can name the Mona Lisa. Almost none can name the handscroll a teenager painted in three years and never lived to repeat, or the jade boulder the size of a small car that a dozen men carved for a Qianlong emperor who wanted to own a myth.
We spend our time on the things the textbooks skip.
Sinocra is rebuilding the record of Chinese art’s masterworks, not as museum labels but as stories you can actually read: immersive, precise, and sourced. From Wang Ximeng’s A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains, painted when he was eighteen and never finished again, to the cloisonné censers and bronze cranes that outlived the dynasties that commissioned them.
No gatekeeping. No paywall on history.
Every piece carries its provenance, its technique, and the uncomfortable questions curators prefer to leave in the vitrine. We have already rebuilt the head of the collection, the paintings, the jade, the enamel, the bronze, and we are publishing the long tail weekly.
Start with the masterworks: explore the archive. Or just wander. The record is open.
Sinocra — editorial reconstructions of the world’s great Chinese artefacts. Independent, non-commercial, sourced.