Author: de Luc Tuymans & Yu Hui
Title: L'Empire interdit, Visions du monde des maitres chinois et flamands
Description: Brussel. Mercator. 2007. First edition. Folio. Hardcover. Mint. 208 Pages,with 150 pictures in full colour. Text in French Two continents, five centuries of art, two kinds of visual idiom. The internationally renowned Belgian artist Luc Tuymans and Yu Hui, curator of the Palace Museum in Beijing, initiate a dialogue between art from the Low Countries and from China. Drawings and paintings by, among others, Van Eyck, Brueghel, Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, Ensor, Mellery, Spilliaert and Magritte confront works on paper and silk from the Ming and Qing dynasties and the early Chinese Republic, held in the Forbidden City of Beijing, from which the Chinese emperors ruled their domains.

Keywords: China chinese history