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Year

1895-1903

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Maxwell Sommerville had shipped more than six tons of material from Japan and China "for the purpose of teaching Philadelphians about Buddhist beliefs and ritual through a visual display of the wides possible range of objects" to the University of Pennsylvania Museum.

Mentioned People (1)

Sommerville, Maxwell  (1829-1904) : Vize-Präsident University of Pennsylvania Museum

Subjects

Art : General / Religion : Buddhism

Documents (1)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 2003 Qian, Zhaoming. The modernist response to Chinese art : Pound, Moore, Stevens. (Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2003).
http://books.google.ch/books/about/The_Modernist_Response_to_Chinese_
Art.html?id=S0AHhe2a0NoC&redir_esc=y
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