The Metropolitan Museum of Art Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100-1900

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100-1900

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Met Museum publications make perfect gifts for art lovers. By Pengliang Lu Bronze vessels were the ultimate emblems of power in ancient China. Beginning in the twelfth century, the rediscovery of ancient bronzes as evidence of an earlier golden age led to a revival of bronze casting. This publication is the first comprehensive study of these later Chinese bronzes in archaic styles, which were commissioned by emperors and officials from the twelfth through the nineteenth centuries to assert polit