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context: painting > great schools > maruyamaNagasawa Rosetsu 1754-99
Besides the European use of chiaroscuro on what might have started off more or less as a Chinese landscape, we see here evidence of a short-lived eighteenth century fashion for grotesque distortion. We also see a very western-style painting of one of my favourite subjects - monkeys! backwards: Soga Shohakuforwards: Ito Jakuchu
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