Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei

Reference

Maxwell K. Hearn

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Harry N. Abrams

The collection of the National Palace Museum is made up largely of the personal holdings of the Ch'ien-lung emperor (reigned 1736-95). Representing the artistic legacy of imperial China, it offers an unsurpassed view of Chinese civilization. The objects lavishly illustrated and described in this book, which include magnificent ritual bronzes, precious jades, monumental landscape paintings, and exquisite ceramics, are among the finest ever created. Published to accompany the exhibition "Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei," the book takes the reader through the most significant periods of Chinese culture: its foundations in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, its flowering in the sophisticated world of the Sung dynasty, its exuberance during the Ming, and its technical brilliance under the Manchus. The author makes the unique beauty of this art accessible through comparisons of selected works and through discussion of their historical context.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Rizzoli

Ancient Chinese Art: The Ernest Erickson Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

An in-depth stylistic examination and detailed physical analysis of the famed tenth-century "Riverbank, as well as other Chinese old master paintings.

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Wen Fong

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

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