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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kleutghen, Kristina, 1981-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.