Looking east : Rubens's encounter with Asia / edited by Stephanie Schrader ; with contributions by Burglind Jungmann, Kim Young-Jae, and Christine Göttler.

Peter Paul Rubens' fascinating depiction of a man wearing Korean costume of around 1617, in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, has been considered noteworthy since it was made. Published to accompany an exhibition of Rubens' Man in Korean Costume at the J. Paul Getty Museum, '...

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Corporate Author: J. Paul Getty Museum
Other Authors: Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640, Schrader, Stephanie, Jungmann, Burglind, Young-Jae, Kim, Göttler, Christine
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, Calif. : J. Paul Getty Museum, c2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • The many identities of Rubens's Man in Korean costume: new perspectives on old interpretations / Stephanie Schrader
  • Looking at the clothing of Rubens's Man in Korean costume / Kim Young-Jae
  • Implicit understanding: Rubens and the representation of the Jesuit missions in Asia / Stephanie Schrader
  • Korean contacts with Europeans in Beijing, and European inspiration in early modern Korean art / Burglind Jungmann
  • The place of the "exotic" in early-seventeenth-century Antwerp / Christine Göttler.