Chinese Painters: A Critical Study

by Philip Zenner

He published a book on Michelangelo spoetry. At the same time he was a scientific engineer. When war broke out Petrucci was on his way home from I taly, where he had been engaged, I believe, on some large engineering project and he only got out of Switzerland into France by the last train which left Basle. He came toE ngland for a time, looking after a number of Belgian refugees, including some very distinguished artists. At the end of 1914 he was engaged by the India office to do some valuable work in London on the collection of Chinese and Tibetan paintings brought back from Tun-huang byS ir Aurel Stein. He then worked at La Panne for theB elgian army hospital (he had had a medical training in his youth), went toP rovence for a rest, fell ill and died in Paris after an operation. Raphael Petrucci was a man who seemed to reincarnate the boundless curiosity and the various ability of the men of the Italian Renaissance. But for some years before his death he had concentrated his powers chiefly on the study ofO riental art, of the Chinese language, and of Buddhist iconography. His most important work in this line is La Pbilosopbie de laN ature dans VA rt dE xtreme Orient, a sumptuously printed folio published by Laurens in Paris, with illustrations by the Kokka Company, and written with as much charm as insight.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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157 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1912

Reviews

[Dean Wang]

It was a little dry, but those with an interest in Chinese cultural history might find it illuminating.