Imperial Illusions : Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the Qing Palaces /
"In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best artists of the imperial painting academy, including a number of European missionary painters, used...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2015]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction: a new vision of painting
- Painted walls and pictorial illusions
- The study of vision
- Contemplating the future
- Peacocks and cave-heavens
- Staging Europe
- The beauty in the garden
- Epilogue: illusions, imperial and otherwise.