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Art: Forbidden City: treasures of an emperor: Treasure a chance to enter the Forbidden City
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Forbidden City: treasures of an emperor Royal Museum, Edinburgh
WALKING into the Royal Museum's latest exhibition is like walking
into the Forbidden City itself. Muted lighting, contemporary display
cases and information tablets, along with a matt-red colouring,
create an atmosphere where, when standing in front of an exhibit, you
can forget that there are other people in the room or that you stand
in a large, national museum, contained as you are in your own
personal pool of light.
The majority of the pieces are scrolls - of paintings and poems -
select pieces from the reign of the ...
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; Forbidden City: Treasures of an Emperor The Royal Museum **** THE Forbidden City exhibition is a considerable coup for the Royal Museum, this being the first...time the contents of the Forbidden City have been seen in this...the new name for the ...
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; ...China's last two feudal dynasties, the Forbidden City epitomized the glory of the ancient...human history. For most tourists, the Forbidden City - its official name is The Palace Museum...devoted 10 years to photographing the Forbidden City, chose "The Invisible Palace" as the...
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; Royal Museum, Edinburgh AMONG the many superb paintings...glimpse of treasures from Beijing's Forbidden City Museum are two large, imposingly formal...who ruled from within the 9,000-room Forbidden City. One of the earliest, a big but delicate...
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