Empresses of China's Forbidden City 1644-1912 / edited by Daisy Yiyou Wang and Jan Stuart ; with essays and entries by Daisy Yiyou Wang, Jan Stuart, Lin Shu, Luk Yu-ping, Ying-chen Peng, Evelyn S. Rawski, Ren Wanping, and additional entries by curators at the Palace Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the Freer│Sackler, Smithsonian Institution.

 Empresses of China's Forbidden City: 1644-1912 accompanies the exhibition of the same title organized by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the Freer/Sackler, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC, and the Palace Museum, Beijing, China.

Exhibition Itinerary : Peabody Essex Museum, August 18, 2018-February 10, 2019 and Freer/Sackler, Smithsonian Institution, March 30-June 23, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Rediscovering the empresses of Qing China, 1644-1912 / Daisy Yiyou Wang and Jan Stuart -- Key empresses in the Qing imperial family -- Timeline of Qing empresses in world context / Doris Sung and Paula Richter -- Map of the Forbidden City -- Qing empresses and their place in history / Evelyn S. Rawski -- Qing empresses and grand imperial weddings / Ren Wanping -- Tracing the lives of Qing court women / Jan Stuart -- Empress Dowager Chongqing and the Palace of Longevity and Health / Lin Shu -- Deciphering portraits of Qing empresses / Daisy Yiyou Wang -- Qing empresses as religious patrons and practitioners / Luk Yu-ping -- Empresses and Qing court politics / Ying-chen Peng -- Plates -- Catalogue of the exhibition -- Glossary of selected names and terms.

"Empresses of China's Forbidden City: 1644-1912" : August 18, 2018-February 10, 2019, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, United States.

"Empresses of China's Forbidden City: 1644-1912" : March 30-June 23, 2019, the Freer/Sackler, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

"Empresses in the Qing dynasty played an influential role in the imperial court and the cosmopolitan culture of their time. Offering compelling insights into the material culture, activities, and living spaces of Qing empresses, this lavishly illustrated book features over one hundred spectacular works of art from the Palace Museum in Beijing--including large-scale portraits, court robes, and richly decorated Buddhist sutras--that bring the splendor of the Qing court to life. A series of insightful essays examines the fascinating ways that key imperial women engaged with art, religion, and politics. This unprecedented exploration of the Qing court from the perspective of its top-ranked women is an important new contribution to our understanding of Chinese art and history"

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Essays : twelve centuries of Japanese art from the Imperial collections / Hirabayashi Moritoku [and others].

Includes bibliographical references.

"This book accompanies the exhibition catalogue Twelve centuries of Japanese art from the Imperial collections ... published on the occasion of the exhibition Twelve centuries of Japanese art from the Imperial collections, held at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, December 14, 1997-March 8, 1998"--Title page verso.

Foreword / Ann Yonemura -- Emperors as artists and cultural leaders / Miyajima Shin'ichi -- Calligraphy : the Imperial Collection and its masterworks in historical context / Hirabayashi Moritoku -- The tradition and transmission of imperial culture in the early modern period : the collection of the former Katsuranomiya family / Ohta Aya -- Reassessing historical role : the Imperial Household and the Imperial Household Ministry and modern Japanese art / Ohkuma Toshiyuki.

Twelve centuries of Japanese art from the Imperial collections / introduction by Ann Yonemura ; contributions by Hirabayashi Moritoku [and others].

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Arthur M Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Dec. 14, 1997-Mar. 8, 1998.

Accompanied by book titled Essays : twelve centuries of Japanese art from the Imperial collections / Hirabayashi Moritoku [and others]. (83 p.; 28 cm.). Published jointly by Imperial Household Agency, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan Foundation and the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-224) and index.

Showcasing a stunning selection of seventy-six paintings and works of calligraphy dating from the ninth through the twentieth century, many for the first time to a Western audience, this volume celebrates the consistent influence of imperial taste on the development of Japanese art. Rare examples of calligraphy from the Heian and Kamakura (1185-1333) periods attest to a longstanding imperial interest in the aesthetically effective union of word and image. A series of large-scale scrolls by the eighteenth-century painter Ito Jakuchu, presented to the imperial household by the Zen Buddhist temple Shokokuji, represent the most revered Japanese paintings of natural life and the close relationship between the imperial family and the country's religious institutions.

The book also examines the court's role as an art benefactor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when international influences had a dramatic impact on Japanese notions of the visual arts. Replete with color reproductions, Twelve Centuries of Japanese Art from the Imperial Collections offers scholars, collectors, connoisseurs, historians, and all those interested in Japanese art an unprecedented view of Japanese aesthetic sensibility as expressed in the imperial collections.

Map of Japan -- Chronology -- Emperors and reigning Empresses -- Imperial gift: an artistic legacy / Ann Yonemura.