Chinese reverse glass painting 1720-1820 : An artistic meeting between China and the West. Preface by Danielle Elisseeff

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 t...

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Main Author: Audric, Thierry (auth)
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Published: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2020
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