Patricia Ann Berger

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art

Images of Chinese Buddhism, 850 - 1850 ; [exhibition, August 27 - October 9 1994 ...]

Latter Days of the Law

It examines some of the Buddhist underpinning of the Qing view of rulership and shows just how central images were in the carefully reasoned rhetoric the court directed toward its Buddhist allies in inner Asia. The multi-lingual, culturally fluid Qing emperors put an extraordinary range of visual styles into practice - Chinese, Tibetan, Nepalese, and even the European Baroque brought to the court by Jesuit artists.

Patricia Ann Berger

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