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The Marriage of Europe and China by Italian ‘700 artist Pietro Antonio Novelli

The Marriage of Europe and China is a drawing made with pen and brown and gray ink with gray wash on laid paper.

Pietro Antonio Novelli 1729 – 1804, Venice, was an Italian painter and engraver.

He was trained with the Venetian painter Giambattista Pittoni.

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National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Topic: free China art, Western representation of China

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CHINA-UNDERGROUND. Matteo Damiani is an Italian sinologist, photographer, author and motion designer. Matteo lived and worked for ten years in China. Founder of CinaOggi.it and China-underground.com.

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