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- Title
Chinoiserie and printed sources. Seventeenth century Dutch illustrated volumes on the Far East and their reception in European art.
- Authors
Morena, Francesco
- Abstract
This article focuses on the importance of some volumes on the Far East (China and Japan in particular) published in The Netherlands during the 17th century as source of inspiration for Chinoiserie, the artistic and aesthetical European phenomenon which spread with major intensity during the 18th century. Starting with the Van Linschoten's Itinerario (1596), these books were published mainly as a result of the flourishing commercial activity of the Dutch East India Company in Asia. The illustrations which appear in these volumes, far from being faithful depictions of those far countries and of their inhabitants, form a visual compendium of the idea Europeans had about those still mysterious cultures.
- Subjects
CHINOISERIE (Art); PRINTING industry; 17TH century European art; HISTORICAL source material; EAST India Co.
- Publication
Bulletin of Portuguese / Japanese Studies, 2016, Issue 2, p85
- ISSN
0874-8438
- Publication type
Article