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The Emperor's Private Paradise

Author : Nancy Berliner
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Beijing (China)
ISBN : 9780875772219

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For centuries, China's Forbidden City has captured the world's imagination. Yet the elegant, intimate Qianlong Garden - itself within a 'mini-Forbidden City' inside the Forbidden City - has remained sequestered from public view. This title gives an analysis of the garden, which is one of the most refined and elegant of imperial Chinese gardens.

The Emperor's Private Paradise

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Department of Communications
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,46 MB
Release : 2010
Category : CD-ROMs
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The Emperor's Private Paradise

Author : Nancy Zeng Berliner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
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This exhibition catalogue offers a magnificent, thorough study of 90 objects from the Qianlong Garden in Beijing's Forbidden City. Objects include wall paintings, furniture, architectural fittings, ceramics, and stone. They have been on public view infrequently and only in the Qianlong Garden, which is now undergoing a 20-year restoration under the lead of the World Monuments Fund and Beijing's Palace Museum. The garden is a two-acre tract consisting of 27 buildings, their contents, and a mature landscape--the whole complex is characterized as a "multi-layered artwork." Following an introduction by Elliott (Harvard), Berliner (Peabody Essex Museum) presents the general characteristics of scholar and emperor gardens, and the early gardens of Emperor Qianlong, along with a minute analysis of the Qianlong Garden. Yuan Hongqi (Palace Museum), Liu Chang (Tsinghua Univ., Beijing), and Henry Tzu Ng (World Monuments Fund) treat the garden's subsequent history. Interlaced throughout are superb illustrations of the objects and the garden, followed by a catalogue with small illustrations of objects, and their curatorial data; a chronology; a comparative, annotated time line; maps; glossary; and Chinese pronunciation guide. This must-buy publication is a model of sensitive scholarship that places the garden and its objects in an understandable, universal context. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. General Readers; Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty; Professionals/Practitioners. Reviewed by D. K. Haworth.

Imperial Illusions

Author : Kristina Kleutghen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 35,84 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0295805528

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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 Western perspectival illusionism to transform walls and ceilings with visually striking images that were also deeply meaningful to Qianlong. These unprecedented works not only offer new insights into late imperial China’s most influential emperor, but also reflect one way in which Chinese art integrated and domesticated foreign ideas. In Imperial Illusions, Kristina Kleutghen examines all known surviving examples of the Qing court phenomenon of “scenic illusion paintings” (tongjinghua), which today remain inaccessible inside the Forbidden City. Produced at the height of early modern cultural exchange between China and Europe, these works have received little scholarly attention. Richly illustrated, Imperial Illusions offers the first comprehensive investigation of the aesthetic, cultural, perceptual, and political importance of these illusionistic paintings essential to Qianlong’s world. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/imperial-illusions

Empresses of China's Forbidden City

Author : Daisy Yiyou Wang
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,61 MB
Release : 2018
Category : ART
ISBN : 9780300237085

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"Empresses of China's Forbidden City: 1644-1912 accompanies the exhibition of the same title organized by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the Freer]Sackler, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC, and the Palace Museum, Beijing, China."

Splendors of China's Forbidden City

Author : Chuimei Ho
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781858942032

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Offering an unprecedented insight into one of the most glittering courts in history, this sumptuous book brings together some China's priceless national treasures, housed in Beijing's royal palace complex, the Forbidden City, and collected by Emperor Qianlong during his sixty-year reign from 1736 to 1795.

The World of Khubilai Khan

Author : James C. Y. Watt
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 0300166567

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Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 28, 2010-Jan. 2, 2011.

The Emperors' Album

Author : Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,98 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Calligraphy, Islamic
ISBN : 0870994999

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Fifty leaves that form the sumptuous Kevorkian Album, one of the world's greatest assemblages of Mughal art. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Destruction of Paradise

Author : John Alan Roote
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780999404690

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An investigation of the sack of the Emperor's Summer Palace, near Beijing, in 1860.