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Year

1599

Text

Matteo Ricci visited Xu Hongji in Nanjing and was impressed about the great garden with its halls, chambers, loggias, towers, courtyards, an artificially constructed mountain of rock, caves, arbors, fishponds et al.

Mentioned People (2)

Ricci, Matteo  (Macerata, Ancona 1552-1610 Beijing) : Jesuitenmissionar, Gründer der modernen Chinamission, Philosoph, Mathematiker, Naturwissenschaftler

Xu, Hongji  (gest. 1643)

Subjects

Art : Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Documents (1)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 2000 Clunas, Craig. Nature and ideology in Western descriptions of the Chinese garden. In : Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident ; no 22 (2000).
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/42635703.pdf?_=1461399165387.
Publication / ClunC1