IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The painting is arranged with ...

What Emperor Qianlong did with his court painters is the 18th century equivalent of digital photo manipulation and Photoshop ...

Shen Deqian】Shen Deqian was a scholar and man of letters during the Qing dynasty in China.Despite his exceptional talent, he was not favored by the official career path; he finally passed the imperial ...

Oxford professor Henrietta Harrison's new research shows that the famous letter from China's Qianlong emperor to Britain's King George III in 1793 was a diplomatic manoeuvre rather than a reflection ...

For this "Favorite Paintings" feature, I will be discussing two works by two artists who, though it may sound a bit strange to say, I personally consider to be "simply masterful painters!" Velázquez's ...

Qianlong Emperor, born in 1711, was the sixth emperor of the Qing dynasty, ruling from 1735 to 1796. He was the fourth son of Emperor Yongzheng and is remembered as one of the most prosperous and ...

The digitization display of The Qianlong Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour opened at the National Museum of China on Dec 28, which marked the official opening of the stationary digital gallery in the ...

A vase kept in a kitchen in England could sell for £150,000 ($186,000) after it was revealed to be a rare 18th century Chinese artifact which was created for the Qianlong Emperor. The vase was ...

How the World Works readers: Slap yourselves on the back. On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal published a long, Page One story profiling Terry Gou, the CEO and founder of Taiwan’s behemoth contract ...