TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thierry Audric
PY  - 2020
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783034339803
TI  - Chinese reverse glass painting 1720-1820
T2  - An artistic meeting between China and the West. Preface by Danielle Elisseeff
DO  - 10.3726/b16542
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1068888
N2  - Displaying a talent for combining aesthetic sensibility with scientific rigor, the author has given new life to something that once excited European passions: an original, non-academic art at the forefront of the ‘new technology’ of the time. For decades, aristocrats of the Old World and then American collectors (the latter at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries) spent countless sums on the purchase of these works, which were worth a fortune. These wealthy collectors of curiosities of all types were also most certainly great dreamers seeking a worthy setting for their dreams. Unbeknownst to them, their endeavours had much greater scope, creating and nourishing the conditions for a rare encounter between two worlds: a golden age of atypical collaboration, a combined adventure between China and Europe.
KW  - The dawn of reverse glass painting in China, Chinese motifs, Western motifs, Transpositions of Western artworks, Frames, Painters and their workshops, The market from 1720 to 1820, Influence outside China, The market in China and the West
LA  - English
ER  -