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Birds have been an intimate part of people’s lives throughout history. Whether found in mountain forests or remote wetlands, encountered on walks in urban parks or along the road, or even seen around the home, birds appear almost everywhere we look. For this and other reasons, an appreciation of our feathered friends naturally became a popular leisure activity among many people. 

Exhibit

Birds have been an intimate part of people’s lives throughout history. Whether found in mountain forests or remote wetlands, encountered on walks in urban parks or along the road, or even seen around the home, birds appear almost everywhere we look. For this and other reasons, an appreciation of our feathered friends naturally became a popular leisure activity among many people. 

Exhibit

Birds have been an intimate part of people’s lives throughout history. Whether found in mountain forests or remote wetlands, encountered on walks in urban parks or along the road, or even seen around the home, birds appear almost everywhere we look. For this and other reasons, an appreciation of our feathered friends naturally became a popular leisure activity among many people. 

Exhibit

Birds have been an intimate part of people’s lives throughout history. Whether found in mountain forests or remote wetlands, encountered on walks in urban parks or along the road, or even seen around the home, birds appear almost everywhere we look. For this and other reasons, an appreciation of our feathered friends naturally became a popular leisure activity among many people. 

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Since 2011, the National Palace Museum initiated a series of high-resolution long scroll painting animations. Using the latest technology, several high-resolution 1080 HD projectors seamlessly unfold sceneries from classical long scroll paintings on the wall. The painting animation series reproduces nine popular paintings and calligraphy, including Along the River During Qingming (Qing court artists), Spring Dawn in the Han Palace (Qiu Ying), Imitating Zhao Bosu's Latter Ode on the Red Cliff (Wen Zhengming), Syzygy of the Sun, Moon, and Five Planets (Xu Yang), Departure Herald (Anonymous), Return Clearing (Anonymous) and Activities of the Twelve Lunar Months (Qing court artists), One Hundred Horses (Giuseppe Castligione), The Cold Food Observance (Su Shi), Poem in Seven-character Verse (Huang Tingjian). Inspired by historical material related to the artworks, the animations faithfully present the true spirit of the original paintings and their most attractive parts. A fascinating feature of the long scroll painting is its ability to simultaneously manifest chronological continuity and segmentation. As a result of the unique painting scale and traditional right to left reading direction, painting compositions unfurl accordingly and emphasize horizontal relationships. Oftentimes, scenes occurring at different points in time were depicted on a single scroll. 

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The ancient kerchief-box edition (or jinxiang ben) finds its modern equivalent in the miniature, pocket, or palm-sized book. Its small size as well as ease of carriage and storage secured its popularity among scholars and the reading public alike. 

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The ancient kerchief-box edition (or jinxiang ben) finds its modern equivalent in the miniature, pocket, or palm-sized book. Its small size as well as ease of carriage and storage secured its popularity among scholars and the reading public alike. 

Exhibit

The ancient kerchief-box edition (or jinxiang ben) finds its modern equivalent in the miniature, pocket, or palm-sized book. Its small size as well as ease of carriage and storage secured its popularity among scholars and the reading public alike. 

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The Seventeenth Century— An Era of Exploring Knowledge and Expanding Territory

The Ming dynasty was situated on the east side of the world, which had gone through the disturbances and restlessness during the late Wanli reign and the intrusions of Manchurians. The state of the nation had been followed by the enthronement of Shunzhi emperor and the establishment of the Qing dynasty. After the Kangxi and Yongzheng emperors, the Qing Empire entered a stable period. In relative to this, the western merchants and missionaries had marched further into Asia with unstoppable force. Their traces had spread from the trading bases along the coastline and made the way into the royal court. The Dutch envoys and missionaries had owned the crowning glory among all western visitors that were trading with the East, and they had not only delivered the knowledge and merchandises from Asia back to Europe, but also had become the crucial transporter across the East Asia Seas. This exhibition takes the journey of the Dutch envoys had successfully presented themselves to the Qing emperor as the genesis, and selects exquisite artworks collected by the National Palace Museum, the Rijksmuseum from Amsterdam, Netherlands, the Umi-Mori Art Museum, the Museum of Oriental Ceramic, Osaka from Japan, the Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government, the National Taiwan University Library, and the Graduate Institute of Art History of National Taiwan University. The story of exchanges between East and West is presented by the joint efforts. 

Exhibit

The Seventeenth Century— An Era of Exploring Knowledge and Expanding Territory

The Ming dynasty was situated on the east side of the world, which had gone through the disturbances and restlessness during the late Wanli reign and the intrusions of Manchurians. The state of the nation had been followed by the enthronement of Shunzhi emperor and the establishment of the Qing dynasty. After the Kangxi and Yongzheng emperors, the Qing Empire entered a stable period. In relative to this, the western merchants and missionaries had marched further into Asia with unstoppable force. Their traces had spread from the trading bases along the coastline and made the way into the royal court. The Dutch envoys and missionaries had owned the crowning glory among all western visitors that were trading with the East, and they had not only delivered the knowledge and merchandises from Asia back to Europe, but also had become the crucial transporter across the East Asia Seas. This exhibition takes the journey of the Dutch envoys had successfully presented themselves to the Qing emperor as the genesis, and selects exquisite artworks collected by the National Palace Museum, the Rijksmuseum from Amsterdam, Netherlands, the Umi-Mori Art Museum, the Museum of Oriental Ceramic, Osaka from Japan, the Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government, the National Taiwan University Library, and the Graduate Institute of Art History of National Taiwan University. The story of exchanges between East and West is presented by the joint efforts.