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Biography
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- Rider
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846044830
- ISBN
- 9781846044830
Paperback
Condition: New
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- Granta Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
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- V9781847080554
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- 9781847080554
Paperback
Condition: New
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The Harvesters
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Title:The Harvesters
Artist:Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels)
Date:1565
Medium:Oil on wood
Dimensions:Overall, including added strips at top, bottom, and right, 46 7/8 x 63 3/4 in. (119 x 162 cm); original painted surface 45 7/8 x 62 7/8 in. (116.5 x 159.5 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1919
Object Number:19.164
Attribution, Date, and Bruegel’s Working Methods: When The Met acquired The Harvesters in 1919, the extraordinarily low sale price in part had to do with the art market that had virtually collapsed during World War I. The price also reflected the fact that the painting was hidden beneath accumulated dirt, discolored varnish, and unsightly restorations along the cracks at the panel joins where there were accompanying paint losses. Bryson Burroughs, The Met’s curator at the time, took a chance on the painting – although not much of one financially—and he turned out to be right that it is an autograph work by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. This was confirmed when the painting was cleaned and Bruegel’s signature and the date 1565 were recovered at the lower left edge: BRVEGEL / [MD]LXV (now lar
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Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times 9780520909496
Table of contents :
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Note on Transliteration
1. The Early Mongols
2. Khubilai Emerges
3. The Great Khan
4. The Conqueror
5. The Emperor of China
6. The Cultural Patron
7. Mismanagement and the Chinese Response
8. Decline of an Emperor
Notes
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Bibliography of Works in Western Languages
Addenda to Bibliography of Works in Western Languages
Bibliography of Works in Oriental Languages
Index
Citation preview
Khubilai Khan
Portrait of Khubilai Khan. National Palace Museum, Taipei.
Khubilai Khan His Life and Times
Morris Rossabi UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley • Los Angeles • London
University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England © 1988 by The Regents of the University of California
The University of California Press gratefully acknowledges support from the China Publication Subventions program. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rossabi, Morris. Khubilai Khan: his life and times. Includes bibliographies and index. 1. Khubilai Khan, 1215-1294. 2. Mongols—History. 3. China—Kings and rulers—Biography. I. Title. DS452.6.K83R67 1987 950'.2'0924 [B] 86-25031 I