Whenever it comes to the New Year, people in addition to buying New Year goods are all kinds of entertainment activities, especially some old streets, because there are many strange things, so everyone likes to go to treasure hunting.
But in these places we will meet some painters who will concentrate on painting portraits of people.
After the painting is drawn, we will be surprised to find that the similarity with the person being painted is very high, and even very expressive.
Of course, now that society wants to leave its own beautiful image, it no longer needs to use a paintbrush, all kinds of cameras can restore us 100%, and the beauty function is powerful and will make you beautiful in an instant.
However, in ancient times, the camera was not invented, and if you want to have a portrait of yourself, you can only ask the painter to paint it.
However, there are not many ancient painters, and even if the painters paint them, they are all ink style, which cannot completely restore the true appearance of people, even if they are royal painters, at most they can paint people's spirits with more charm.
Therefore, we will find that the portraits of ancient emperors all look the same, and they cannot be distinguished without careful identification.
So our modern people are curious, what did the ancient emperor look like?
However, the true appearance of the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty was once painted by an Italian painter, and netizens could not help but exclaim, "It looked like this."
The emperor with all the best
To say that this Qianlong is really an Internet celebrity emperor, why is he so popular?
Because he was so smooth sailing, too much by God's favor.
He did not have to fight with his brothers for the throne like his father Yongzheng, nor did he have overbearing courtiers to challenge his prestige, nor did he have the empress dowager who hid behind to control the government, and he sat on the dragon chair at the best age of his life at the age of twenty-five.
Most importantly, his father also left him a rich family foundation, on the basis of which he opened his own prosperous world, but it was the last prosperous era in China's feudal history.
Qianlong's "Foreign Friends"
Due to the implementation of the national policy of closing the country to the outside world, China in the Qianlong period was already far from the Western powers after the industrial revolution.
However, Qianlong did not know it, and he looked down on the envoys of the visiting Western countries; in his eyes, the Western countries were all small foreign countries, and he did not know that although the gdp of the Qing Dynasty at that time was still the first in the world, if it was counted per capita, it was simply not enough to see.
Although this Qianlong looked down on foreigners, he favored an Italian, and this Italian was Lang Shining, the chief painter of Qianlong's court.
Qianlong in the eyes of the "foreign friend" painter
Lang Shining painted many portraits of Qianlong and his beautiful concubines in the palace, but most of these portraits adopted the unique Chinese freehand style, focusing on the spirit of a person, to put it bluntly, it was like having a "beauty" function, because it was painted for the emperor.
This Lang Shining has been in China for many years, is an authentic Chinese, and he knows too well what he should do.
However, among all of Lang Shining's paintings, only one of them he secretly painted secretly, named "Portrait of the Qianlong Emperor in Half-Body Winter Dress".
Because he had been with Qianlong for many years, he already knew Qianlong's appearance and demeanor very well, so he could draw it out of thin air.
In this portrait, he adopted the style of Western oil painting, which restored the true appearance of Qianlong to the greatest extent.
The Qianlong in the painting is a middle-aged uncle, he is wearing civilian clothes, has a pair of single eyelid eyes, has a beard, or an eagle hook nose, completely subverting the imagination of the world.