Just so elegant, powerful, beautiful.

and these girls


their clothing is suprisingly modern! Well, it's a modern picture, but of Tang clothing.

I'm also looking for examples of MiddleEast (or in this case, MiddleWestern) influence on the Tang
I found this picture, but I don't know how much artistic license was taken

The above seems to be from Turkic/Uighur influence of central asia

The artist is Jia Lu, born in Beijing, but working in North America for the last decade. She is an expert on mid and high-Tang Dynasty Buddhist art, and has visited Dunhuang five times. She worked for the Japanese investors in the Chinese television production of "Yang Guifei" and with Pierre Cardin on a fashion show of Chinese costume. Her website can be found at http://www.jialu.com where she has other historically-influenced work. A video is posted at http://www.youtube.com/LanternGuardian.
The costumes in this painting are not authentic, but imaginative reconstructions. The artist's intention was to capture the opulence of the Tang Dynasty, not to do an accurate illustration. Other examples of her work:



http://www.jialu.com/images/jpg/midres/Bronze_Bell.jpg

How delightful to see someone else who revels in the feminine. (Though I have to go on record and say I don't sit around topless 1/32th as much as her works. ^__~)

Thank you for the link.

To show a comparison, here's a Tang era Chinese painting by Zhou Fang (c. 730-800):




Eric (En Rui)