page_title: Vietnamese art
section_title: Fourth Chinese domination and Lê Dynasty
hierarchical_section_title: Vietnamese art / Traditional art / Fourth Chinese domination and Lê Dynasty
caption_attribution_description: English: Lê dynasty's Pieces of wooden art
context_page_description: Vietnamese art is visual art that, whether ancient or modern, originated in or is practiced in Vietnam or by Vietnamese artists.
  Vietnamese art has a long and rich history, the earliest examples of which date back as far as the Stone Age around 8,000 BCE.
  With the millennium of Chinese domination starting in the 2nd century BC, Vietnamese art undoubtedly absorbed many Chinese influences, which would continue even following independence from China in the 10th century AD. However, Vietnamese art has always retained many distinctively Vietnamese characteristics.
  By the 19th century, the influence of French art took hold in Vietnam, having a large hand in the birth of modern Vietnamese art.
context_section_description: The fourth Chinese domination of Vietnam was quite short-lived, lasting only about 2 decades, yet it was also seen as the harshest domination.  Many if not most classical Vietnamese books were burnt, and thus much documentation of the era of independence lost.  It is said that a more extreme than-ever process of sinicization was enforced, and countless Vietnamese resources and goods were removed and taken to China.
  Consequently, much of the art in this period and even after liberation by the Lê Dynasty was heavily influenced by the Ming Dynasty's art.
caption: Pieces of wooden art from 17th and 18th century
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