Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West history The Catholic Rubens

The Catholic Rubens

from Classical allusion to sexual fantasy

and president of the Italian Giunta Storica Nazionale

Paleotti’s Discourse on Sacred and Profane Images argues that art should address a broad audience and explains the painter’s responsibility to his spectators

Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West history The Catholic RubensEdited 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