THE BOWERS MUSEUM OF CULTURAL ART 2002 North Main Street Santa Ana, California 92706 tel: (714) 567-3600, 567-3603 internet: www.bowers.org/
		• Forbidden City: Splendors from China's Imperial Palace February 5 - September 4, 2000
			This exhibition will bring together a selection of precious objects, including formal and informal robes, arms and armor, accessories and jewelry, sceptors and seals, portraits and paintings, and a complete throne room from the Palace Museum, Beijing. Through this sumptuous visual material the viewer enter a world of ceremony and ritual, births and deaths, banquets and processions, all revolving around the Emperor, who served as supreme authority in an unquestionable family hierarchy and sanctified power structure. The works on view represent the pinnacle on technical virtuosity and creative genius on the parts of thousands of anonymous artisans who toiled solely to serve the Imperial Court. The exhibit was curated by Yang Xin, Director of the Palace Museum, Beijing and Janet Baker, Bowers Museum of Art.
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