"Snow-covered Plateau", the Chinese painting exhibition on Tibet, was inaugurated here on Friday, drawing an enthusiastic welcome from the Italian public.

People attending the opening ceremony said they were impressed by the displayed works, which depict traditional and daily scenes of modern Tibet and show unique techniques of Chinese painters.

A man visits an exhibition of paintings by Han and Tibetan artists in Rome, capital of Italy, Oct. 24, 2009. The nine-day exhibition kicking off here on Friday features 60 paintings depicting extraordinary landscape of China's Tibet and the region's social and economic development, giving the Italians and other Europeans an opportunity to enjoy the natural scenery and traditional customs of China's Tibet.

Mica Fiori, an Italian art journalist, said she was "fascinated by the different scenes portrayed," especially the drawings on Tibetan nomads.

"In these pictures I am captured by the faces of the people who seem to belong to ancient past times. It's incredible the way the artists have drawn the expressions of the protagonists," she said.

The "Snow-covered Plateau" exhibition, which represents a cultural and artistic opportunity to enhance the friendship and exchanges between China and Italy, aimed to make Tibet and its people better known to the Italian public.