Excerpts from nineteenth-century tech reporting.
(To this day, Hytner does not like to stage plays about family situations; he has never directed Pinter or Chekhov and has mostly stayed away from twentieth-century naturalism. "I don't respond to, and certainly would not like to direct, plays which involve an interior journey only," he told me).
Hands down, it was the sleeper event of the London exhibition season, featuring limestone sculptures, mostly from the sixth century, part of a vast buried horde discovered in Shandong Province in eastern China several years ago by workmen clearing a sports field.
The samples containing realgar, orpiment and emerald green we selected were taken from seventeenth-century paintings by De Heem and an unknown northern seventeenth-century artist, a nineteenth-century Austrian cupboard, and nineteenth-century paintings by Rousseau and Van Gogh.
Far-removed from twentieth century civilization, yes.
These sumptuous, intricate specimens, mostly from the Qing dynasty, include a nineteenth-century kesi-weave garment, decorated with elaborately embroidered gold dragons and the ancient symbols of imperial authority.
There are books lying everywhere in the house, essays mostly, and biographies, but also great piles of art books, on subjects ranging from medieval churches to nineteenth-century stonemasonry.
His successors at the Fondation Custodia, in Paris, have added nineteenth-century works, mostly Romantic and Barbizon landscapes.
This group of twelve mostly large-scale color photographs from China makes conscious reference to nineteenth-century travellers' albums but is at pains to avoid tourist clichés.
This business of certification is a mostly twentieth-century phenomenon.
