Worshiping the Ancestors
Subtitle: Chinese Commemorative Portraits
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: July 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780804742627
Subjects: Portraits in art; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912; Permanent Collection Catalogs; Portrait Painting; Washington (D.C.); Art; Art & Art Instruction; China; Painting; Asian; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum; Subjects & Themes - Portraits; Exhibitions; Painting, Chinese; Portrait painting, Chinese
First sentence: in the late 1970s, art historian and museum director Sherman E. Lee raised a question that has since dominated the discussion of Chinese portrait paintings.