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The emperor looks west.(Qianlong emperor's fascination with Western cultures)
The eighteenth-century Qianlong emperor was one of China's greatest art patrons. Just as he strove to expand the territory under his control, so too did he endeavor to bring the arts of many foreign cultures into his domain. The premier artisans in his imperial workshops--hailing from Europe, India, and Central Asia, as well as China--created fine and truly unique works of art that blended and balanced the cultures and aesthetics of the period. Under the Qianlong emperor, who followed a path set by his grandfather the Kangxi emperor (r. 1662-1722), European women with blond hair and blue eyes stared out from glossy enameled surfaces (see Fig. 3), mechanical clocks chimed ...
- The emperor's day.(Qianlong emperor)
- Magazine article from: Calliope Rawski, Evelyn S. February 1, 2009 700+ words
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- Hundered days of sorrow: meet Qianlong.(Hongli, the Qianlong emperor)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Calliope Rawski, Evelyn S. February 1, 2009 700+ words
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- Regine Thiriez. Barbarian Lens: Western Photographers of the Qianlong Emperor's...
- Magazine article from: China Review International Yamada, Joanne Y. September 22, 2002 700+ words
...Thiriez' Barbarian Lens: Western Photographers of the Qianlong Emperor's European Palaces exemplifies the highest level of scholarly...such as the "minor incident"--a reference to when the Qianlong emperor noticed a fountain in a European picture in 1747. It was...
- Christoph Kaderas. Die Leishu der imperialen Bibliothek des Kaisers Qianlong...
- Magazine article from: China Review International Ess, Hans van September 22, 2000 700+ words
...Christoph Kaderas. Die Leishu der imperialen Bibliothek des Kaisers Qianlong (The lei-shu in the imperial library of the Qianlong emperor). Asienund Afrika-Studien der Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, vol.4. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998. 336 pp...
- Faces of power.(The Yongle emperor)(portrait of Zhu Di)
- Magazine article from: Calliope Ching, Dora C.Y. February 1, 2009 700+ words
...formal portraits. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When the Manchus conquered the...portraits, such as those of the Qianlong emperor (left) and his empress (opposite...rule in China. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dora C.Y. Ching is associate...
- Life in the forbidden city.
- Magazine article from: Calliope Rawski, Evelyn S. February 1, 2009 700+ words
Hongli, the Qianlong emperor, spent relatively...road. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Further, the time...spacious. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Until he ascended...palace. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The emperor and his...eunuchs. In 1751, the Qianlong emperor decreed that a maximum...
- Blindness and oversight: some comments on a double portrait of Qianlong and the...
- Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society Lachman, Charles October 1, 1996 700+ words
...portrait of Qing Gaozong, the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1736-95) [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED],(1) that usually goes by...2 OMITTED] as the model: the Qianlong emperor has replaced the landscape artist...
- The East in the West.(Report from Europe)(exhibitions)
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Kramer, Miriam December 1, 2005 700+ words
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