Cross-cultural Dialogue of European and Eastern Cultures: Chinoiserie in the Court art of Princes Radzivill of the 18th Century in Belarus

Abstract

The study addresses the issue of cross-cultural dialogue in art on the example of chinoiserie or Chinese style, as French encyclopedias of the first half of the 19^th century began to call this symbiosis of European and Chinese art. The author focuses on the history of chinoiserie in the castles of the Radzivill princes in the 18^th century. in Belarus. The basis of analytics is an album of sketches of furniture, ceramics, weapons, prepared by the court artist Fischer in the 1730s. and a cycle of paintings in the halls of the treasury of the Nesvizh castle.