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Taking a new journey to the West
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Xuanzang (602-664 AD) is probably the most famous Chinese monk and
the man responsible for the imaginative interpretation of his
adventures in the classic Chinese novel "Journey to the West."
But his talents extended way beyond the representation of
fictional tales. A great ideologist, translator, traveller and
diplomat of the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907), Xuanzang spent 17 years
and covered over 20,000 kilometres journeying to India to obtain
Buddhist sutras. And during his lifetime he translated 1,335 volumes
of them.
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Padua's Splendid Array of Bronze
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...humanist scholar.Just as Bellano had completed Donatello's outstanding commissions, so in turn did his pupil, Andrea Briosco, known as ''il Riccio,'' bring the Roccabellona tomb to its conclusion after Bellano's death. Bellano an
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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A [pounds sterling]150,000 gift that goes to the head; COLLECTING.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ...5 million - Sotheby's European sculpture and works of art sale includes a Renaissance terracotta masterpiece, Andrea Briosco's Virgin and Child. But perhaps some of the oddest objects coming up for sale before Christmas are 14 paintings...
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ARTS GUIDE
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...century. The exhibition brings together bronze work by Donatello and such contemporaries as Bartolomeo Bellano, Andrea Briosco and Vittore Camelio. www.padovanet.it/padovacult/donatello-japanTokyo-Hara Museum, tel: (3) 3445...
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 "Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)")
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Beit that! Sale of bronzes copperfastens an Irish gem.(NEWS)
Magazine article from: Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
; ...the Golden Age collectors. The bronze figure of a gladiator by one of the leading sculptors of the Renaissance, Andrea del Briosco, called Riccio (1470-1532), sold for a record EU1,086,336. A contemporary of Michelangelo, Leonardo...
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Works from the meeting point of Gothic and Renaissance
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...the Passion for the Antique: Andrea Riccio and his Time," at...exhibition until Feb. 15.) Andrea Riccio was born in Trent in...Ambrogio di Cristoforo di Briosco, was an itinerant goldsmith...Curly") was the nickname Andrea acquired on account of his...
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