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Verrocchio (Grande) Sconosciuto, Maria Sancho-Arroyo

Faculty Articles

Review of the Verrocchio exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

In Il Giornale dell'Arte, ANNO XXXVII N. 402 NOVEMBRE 2019.

Phoenix Fine Art Business Plan, Ruomu Freda Li

MA Projects

In China, contemporary art market has been growing in both value and size for the past few decades. Today, China remains to be a global industry that is worth more than $50 billion annually. (1) Chinese art market according to a report by ArtNet accounted for 20% of the global total sales in 2017. As a result, the work of the Chinese artists fetching multimillion dollars indicates the significance of the market.(2) This growth in the art market is however attracting the attention of investors and raising the confidence of art collectors. In China, traditional Chinese art has become the …

From Micro To Marco: Jade Snuff Bottles In Qianlong Era, Jinpeng Wang

MA Theses

Emperor Qianlong, whose original name is Aisin Gioro Hongli, was the sixth emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Qianlong was one of the most famous emperors in Chinese history. As the word “Qianlong” means in Manchu, he was truly blessed by the god: the Qing Empire was already very strong when Qianlong came into power; meanwhile, Qianlong had a relatively stable outside environment. It allows Qianlong to be able to focus on pushing his own governing policy. Qianlong’s policy of agricultural development and tax reduction was very effective, under sixty years of reign, the empire has expanded its territory, and the …