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"Matteo Ripa's ""Views of Jehol"": Entangled histories of 18th century European and Chinese landscape representations" (Matrivoj)
Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2013,
The Italian missionary, Matteo Ripa (1682-1746) reportedly introduced a series of copperplate etchings entitled “Views of Jehol”, showing the Emperor Kangxi’s summer palace and gardens to Lord Burlington and his circle (including the landscape designer, William Kent [1685-1748]) in 1724 who then introduced a new style of landscape gardening in England which was known throughout Europe as ‘jardin a ...
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