M.A. Thesis The Interaction Between Portraits Of Ming Dynasty And Those Of The Renaissance

The paper studies the interaction between the portraits of the Ming Dynasty and those of the Renaissance through three clues. The first is the Western Expedition of Mongolian Troops and the China-Western cultural communication caused by the big population immigration between the East and the West. The second is China's effect on Persian fine close paintings. The special geography of Persia has the advantage that it could communicate with both Greece , Byzantine and China. The third is the influence of Western paintings brought by Matteo Ricci on the portraits of the late Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty. Accordingly the paper is divided into three parts.Part One describes the Khan of Chengji s family's portraits and the Mongolian Expedition's influence on the Renaissant portraits. There are two supporting evidence. One is that there exists the similarities in drawing, perspective and realism in modeling between the Yuan Dynasty's portraits and those of the Renaissance. The other is that the research findings which Chinese and foreign scholars have obtained from the study of the portraits of the Yuan Dynasty, Middle Ages and the Renaissance has reproduced the truthof history. Hence, a conclusion can be drawn that the portraits of the Yuan Dynasty has an effect on those of the Renaissance.Part Two purports to draw a conclusion that the Renaissant portraits was affected by the Ming Dynasty through analyzing and demonstrating the following parts: the holy portraits and china's designs' on the portraits of the Renaissance; China's porcelian's effect on the Western Europe; the designs' of the China's porcelian's influence on Albrecht-Durer; the Ming Dynasty's paintings' effect on Persian fine close pictures; the paintings of Tiemuer Period's similarity to those of the Renaissance; the relationship between Da Vinchi himself and his Mona Lisa's background and Chinese paintings as well as the historical writings of the then culture and communications.Part Three describes the influence of the holy portraits brought by Matteo Ricci on the Ming Dynasty's portraits. We conclude that the Renaissant paintings had an influence on the portraits of the Ming Dynasty through the studies of the findings discovered by Chinese and foreign scholars' research on the Missionary's diffusion of Chinese culture, the Ming Dynasty's woodcut collection's inclusion of the Western religious pictures and the advent of Chinese oil paintings in the Ming Dynasty.In the last part we at last conclude that there has long existed the mutual influence in culture between the West and the East and that the influence between them is bilateral, not lateral, based on the above studies on the interrelationship between the Renaissant portraits and the ones of Ming...