This book is reorganized through the script of documentary called When the Louvre meets the Forbidden City. It is divided into 12 chapters and introduces the evolution of eastern and western art history separately in different backgrounds of ancient Central Asia, Egypt, Greece, Rome and Renaissance in Middle Ages. Latest comments from experts and scholars in respective industries have been inserted into this book. It presents ingenious conception and originality of setting up a museum relying on the palace construction like the Louvre and the Forbidden City. We hope to complete a tidy and describe art and history in Chinese vision and modern standpoint. It faces to the east and west, tolerances with common and differences, expresses exchanges and collisions. Feeling culture from antiques, thinking civilization from culture, it try to build a road to improve mutual understanding among the nations, mutual understanding and respect among various civilization.

This book is reorganized through the script of documentary called When the Louvre meets the Forbidden City. It is divided into 12 chapters and introduces the evolution of eastern and western art history separately in different backgrounds of ancient Central Asia, Egypt, Greece, Rome and Renaissance in Middle Ages. Latest comments from experts and scholars in respective industries have been inserted into this book. It presents ingenious conception and originality of setting up a museum relying on the palace construction like the Louvre and the Forbidden City. We hope to complete a tidy and describe art and history in Chinese vision and modern standpoint. It faces to the east and west, tolerances with common and differences, expresses exchanges and collisions. Feeling culture from antiques, thinking civilization from culture, it try to build a road to improve mutual understanding among the nations, mutual understanding and respect among various civilization.