Rare Art From China’s Empress Dowager Comes to US November 12, 2017 11:40 PM ... as well as several pieces of Western art, rare in China at the time, that she also collected.

Empress Dowager Cixi; Katharine A. Carl (1865–1938); Oil on canvas with camphor wood frame, 1903; Transfer from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, S2011.16 Arguably the most powerful empress in ...

Wu Zetian was a fifth-grade concubine in the Chinese royal harem in the 7th century who rose to become China's only empress. This is how she used Buddhism and Nalanda-trained scholars to capture ...

In 1903, American artist Katharine Augusta Carl was invited to paint the first-ever portrait of China’s Empress Dowager Cixi, gaining unprecedented access to the imperial palace.

Following the success of Art Of The Low Countries, BBC Four’s critically acclaimed Art Of… series returns and sees presenter Andrew Graham-Dixon undertake his most epic journey yet, to uncover ...

Empress of China, TinFish Theatre. Tz’u-hsi, the Chinese empress who climbed back to power while her enemies (including family members) conveniently met untimely deaths, could easily be ...