Four Afghan Steeds
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Four Afghan Steeds
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Four Afghan Steeds is a series of four portraits of Afghan horses donated to the Qianlong Emperor of China in 1763 by Emir Ahmad Shah of Afghanistan, and painted on a silk roll by the Milanese Jesuit missionary Giuseppe Castiglione. These paintings, commissioned shortly before Castiglione's death, present detailed information about each of the horses, in four languages: Uyghur, Chinese, Manchurian and Mongolian. It is considered one of Castiglione's most famous works and are now kept at the Nati
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Four portraits of Afghan horses
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Afghan_Steeds
date created:
2021-08-06T11:19:50Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T08:05:27Z
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