Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West history and president of the Italian

and president of the Italian Giunta Storica Nazionale

this book seeks to illuminate how Fontana's material choices over the course of his career fit into the gradual evolution of idea into form

from Classical allusion to sexual fantasy

its illumination

She works as a consultant in conservation and material culture studies for universities and heritage organizations worldwide

Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West history and president of the ItalianEdited by Petra ten Doesschate Chu and Ning Ding Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West examines how the contact between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides of the East West divide. The essays in the volume reveal the extent to which images, artifacts, and natural specimens were traded and copied, and how these materials inflected both cultures visions of novelty