Chinese Painters: A Critical Study by Raphaël Petrucci is an early and influential Western account of the history and aesthetics of Chinese painting. Petrucci, a pioneering European scholar of East Asian art, traces the development of the tradition across the great dynasties and explains the philosophical and technical principles that distinguish it from Western painting.
Attentive to brushwork, landscape, and the spiritual ideals behind the Chinese painter’s art, the book helped introduce Western readers to a tradition then little understood. It remains a notable document in the early study of Chinese art. This free EPUB download is cleanly formatted for any e-reader.