Bulletin, Issue 70"Bibliography of publications based upon collections made with the support of the Swedish China research committee, by Fr. E. Åhlander": Bulletin no. 1, p. 185-191. |
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Only in recent years , has a serious interest in this kind of portraits arisen among students of Chinese art and culture , and light is gradually being thrown on the way they were made and on their role in religious and social contexts ...
Only in recent years , has a serious interest in this kind of portraits arisen among students of Chinese art and culture , and light is gradually being thrown on the way they were made and on their role in religious and social contexts ...
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It appears from the ancient records and archaelogical findings that the custom of letting deceased persons be represented by some kind of likeness can be traced back to at least the first millennium B.C. , when the ancestors of ...
It appears from the ancient records and archaelogical findings that the custom of letting deceased persons be represented by some kind of likeness can be traced back to at least the first millennium B.C. , when the ancestors of ...
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These “ pattern books ” are not described in detail , but books of a similar kind were used by portrait painters , who did not actually see the deceased person . They would bring along their " book of faces " in which the facial ...
These “ pattern books ” are not described in detail , but books of a similar kind were used by portrait painters , who did not actually see the deceased person . They would bring along their " book of faces " in which the facial ...
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