The emperor looks west.(Qianlong emperor's fascination with Western cultures)

The Magazine Antiques | March 1, 2007| | Copyright

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 ...

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