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Klaas Ruitenbeek

    1 janvier 1951
    Gesichter Chinas
    Faces of China :portrait painting of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368-1912)
    Carpentry and building in late imperal China
    • This volume deals with the world of carpenters and joiners in late Imperial China, discussing both the technical and the religious and ritual aspects of building. It uses as its point of departure a unique and hitherto unused source: the fifteenth-century carpenter's manual Lu Ban jing. The first part of the book examines building materials, the life of labourers and craftsmen, and the process of building a house. Subjects included are the choice of favourable measurements, the ritual of raising the ridge pole, and the complete, annotated translation of the Lu Ban jing, preceded by a bibliographic essay. The sections on furniture construction are especially important for the art historian. The book is finely illustrated with more than eighty original drawings and includes a facsimile of the extremely rare, richly illustrated earliest edition of the Lu Ban jing, dating from ca. 1600.

      Carpentry and building in late imperal China
    • Faces of China is the first exhibition explicitly dedicated to Chinese portrait painting. A selection of more than 100 paintings from the collections of the Palace Museum Beijing and the Royal Ontario Museum Toronto, most of which have never been shown in Europe, spans a period of more than 500 years. The main focus is on the unique portraits of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912), including images of members of the imperial court, ancestors, military figures, and informal portraits of artists and famous women. These portraits evidence a blossoming of the genre that had never been seen before. An extensive catalogue will accompany the exhibition.

      Faces of China :portrait painting of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368-1912)
    • „Gesichter Chinas“ ist die erste Ausstellung in Europa, die sich explizit der chinesischen Porträtmalerei widmet. Mit einer Auswahl von mehr als 100, zum größten Teil noch nie in Europa gezeigten Werken aus den Sammlungen des Palastmuseums in Peking und des Royal Ontario Museums in Toronto umfasst die Schau einen Zeitraum von mehr als 500 Jahren. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf den einzigartigen Porträts der Qing-Dynastie (1644–1912), die mit Bildnissen von Mitgliedern des kaiserlichen Hofes und Ahnen-, Militär- sowie informellen Porträts von Künstlern und berühmten Frauen eine vormals nicht gekannte Blüte erfuhr. Der umfangreiche Begleitband zur Ausstellung erscheint in deutscher und englischer Sprache.

      Gesichter Chinas