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Temple, William

(London 1628-1699 Moor Park, Surrey) : Staatsmann, Diplomat, Autor

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History : Occident : Europe : England / Great Britain / Index of Names : Occident

Chronology Entries (2)

# Year Text Linked Data
1 1692 Temple, William. Upon the gardens of Epicurus [ID D22082].
[Erste Erwähnung der Kunst des chinesischen Gartens].
Er schreibt : "What I have said of the best forms of garden, is meant only of such as are in some sort regular ; for there may be other forms wholly irregular, that may, for ought I know, have more beauty than any of the others ; but they must owe it to some extraordinary dispositions of nature in the seat, or some great race of fancy or judgment in the contrivance, which may produce many disagreeing parts into some figure, which shall yet upon the whole, be very agreeable. Something of this I have seen in some places, but heard more of it from others, who have lived much among the Chinese ; a people, whose way of thinking seems to lie as wide of ours in Europe, as their country does. Among us, the beauty of building and planting is placed chiefly in some certain proportions, symmetries, or uniformities ; our walks and our trees ranged so, as to answer one another, and at exact distances. The Chinese scorn this way of planting, and say a boy that can tell an hundred, may plant walks of trees in straight lines, and over against one another, and to what length and extent he pleases. But their greates reach of imagination, is employed in contriving figures, where the beauty shall be great, and strike the eye, but without any order or disposition of parts, that shall be communly or easily observed. And though we have hardly any notion of this sort of beauty, yet they have a particular word to express it ; and where they find it hit their eye at first sight, they say the Sharawadgi is fine or is admirable, or any such expression of esteem."
  • Document: Temple, William. Upon the gardens of Epicurus. (1685). In : Temple, William. Miscellanea, the second part : in four essays. (London : Printed by J.R. for Ri. And Ra. Simpson, 1690). [Erste Erwähnung der Kunst des chinesischen Gartens].
    http://www.epicurus.info/etexts/gardening.html (Tem1, Publication)
2 1696 Temple, William. Upon heroick virtue. [Of heroic virtue] [ID D26756].
Er schreibt : "Among us, the beauty of building and planting is placed chiefly in some certain proportions, symmetries, or uniformities; our walks and our trees ranged so as to answer one another, and at exact distances. The Chinese scorn this way of planting, and say, a boy that can tell a hundred, may plant walks of trees in straight lines, and over against one another, and to what length and extent he pleases. But their greatest reach of imagination is employed in contriving figures, where the beauty shall be great, and strike the eye, but without any order or disposition of parts that shall be commonly or easily observed: and though we have hardly any notion of this sort of beauty, yet they have a particular word to express it, and, where they find it hit the eye at first sight, they say the sharadge is fine and admirable, or any such expression ot esteem. And whoever observes the work upon the best Indian gowns, or the painting upon their best screens or porcelains, will find their beauty is all of this kind (that is) without order."
Yang Chi-ming : It is through his continued critique of Western modernity's copies that Temple in Of heroic virtue raises China to a 'native excellency of temper or gnius, transcending the common race of mankind in wisdom, goodness, and fortitude. Temple chooses to proceed by the 'effects and examples' of overlooked empire located in the 'remote regions of the worrld', with Confucius / China as the primary example, the furthest eastern extreme.
  • Document: Sullivan, Michael. The meeting of Eastern and Western art from the sixteenth century to the present day. (London : Thames and Hudson, 1973). [Rev. and expanded ed. (Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1989)].
    https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_PMFwC1gP0BkC.
    [Enthält]     :
    Some important dates in Far Eastern history since 1500.
    Japan: the first phase, c.1550-1850.
    China and European art, 1600-1800.
    Europe and Chinese art, 1600-1800.
    Japan: from the Meiji restoration of 1869 to the present day.
    The revolution in Chinese art.
    Europe and America: from 1850 to the present day.
    Some reflections on the East-West dialogue. S. 108. (Sul6, Publication)
  • Document: Yang, Chi-ming [Yang, Jiming]. Virtue's vogues : Eastern authenticity and the commodification of Chinese-ness on the 18th-century stage. In : Comparative literature studies ; vol. 39, no 4 (2002). (YangC1, Publication)

Bibliography (2)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1685 Temple, William. Upon the gardens of Epicurus. (1685). In : Temple, William. Miscellanea, the second part : in four essays. (London : Printed by J.R. for Ri. And Ra. Simpson, 1690). [Erste Erwähnung der Kunst des chinesischen Gartens].
http://www.epicurus.info/etexts/gardening.html 		Publication / Tem1
  • Cited by: Daniel, Yvan. Paul Claudel et l'Empire du Milieu. (Paris : Les Indes savantes, 2003). (Clau24, Published)
  • Cited by: Worldcat/OCLC (WC, Web)
2 1696 Temple, William. Upon heroick virtue. [Of heroic virtue]. In : Temple, William. Miscellanea. The second part. (London : Printed for Ri. Simpson, 1696). [Enthält Eintragungen über China und Confucius]. Publication / Tem2