tailieunhanh - Sách Chinese Painters A Critical Study

In Raphael Petrucci, who died early in 1917, the world has lost one of the ablest and most devoted students and interpreters of the art of the Far East. He was only forty-five years of age, in the prime of his powers,brimming with energy and full of enterprises that promised richly. Though he did not die in the field, he was none the less a victim of the war. He had exhausted himself by his labours with the Belgian ambulances at La Panne, for Belgium was his adopted country. He had a house in Brussels, filled with a collection of Chinese and Japanese art,. | Chinese Painters by Raphael Petrucci 1 CHINESE PAINTERS RAPHAEL PETRUCCI Chinese Painters by Raphael Petrucci The Project Gutenberg EBook of Chinese Painters by Raphael Petrucci This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Chinese Painters A Critical Study Author Raphael Petrucci Commentator Laurence Binyon Translator Frances Seaver Release Date August 9 2007 EBook 22288 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHINESE PAINTERS Produced by Dave Morgan Anne Storer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http Chinese Painters by Raphael Petrucci 2 Transcriber s Note 1. There is one instance each of Huang Yin-Piau and Huang Yin-Piao and Yun Shou-p ing and Yun Chou-p ing so they have been left as printed. 2. In this text the breve has been rendered as u CHINESE PAINTERS CHINESE PAINTERS A CRITICAL STUDY BY RAPHAEL PETRUCCI TRANSLATED BY FRANCES SEAVER WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE BY LAURENCE BINYON OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND WITH TWENTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS IN DUOTONE NEW YORK BRENTANO S PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT 1920 BY BRENTANO S All rights reserved THE PLIMPTON PRESS NORWOOD MASS U-S-A PREFACE A translator can have but one aim--to present the thought of the author faithfully. In this case an added responsibility is involved since one who had so much to give to the world has been taken in his prime. M. Petrucci has written at length of art in the Far East in his exhaustive work La Philosophie de la Nature dans l Art dExtrême Orient and elsewhere and has demonstrated the wide scope of his thought and learning. The form and style in Peintres Chinois are the result of much condensation of material and have thus presented problems in translation to which earnest thought has been given. In deference to the .