Ai Weiwei : circle of animals / edited and with an introduction by Susan Delson.
"Published in association with AW Asia, New York, on the occasion of the traveling installation Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-214) and index.

Essays include: Circle of animals/Zodiac heads and the Twelve-Animal Cycle in China / Paola Demattè - - Ming-Qing arts and Jesuit visions: visual encounters and exchanges in 18th century Beijing / Marco Musillo - - Heads of State: looting, nationalism, and repatriation of Zodiac bronzes / Kristina Kleutghen.

Art, mobility, and exchange in early modern Tuscany and Eurasia /  edited by Francesco Freddolini and Marco Musillo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mediterranean connections -- Livorno : infrastructures and networks of exchange -- Asian interactions.

"This book explores how the Medici Grand Dukes pursued ways to expand their political, commercial, and cultural networks beyond Europe, cultivating complex relations with the Ottoman Empire and other Islamicate regions, and looking further east to India, China, and Japan. The chapters that follow show how casting a global, cross-cultural net was part and parcel of the Medicean political vision. Diplomatic gifts, items of commercial exchange, objects looted at war, maritime connections, and political plots were an inherent part of how the Medici projected their state on the global arena. The volume shows that the mobility of objects, people, and knowledge that generated the global interactions we explore was not unidirectional - rather, they went both to and from Tuscany. Several chapters explore evidence of objects produced in Tuscany for Asian markets and reveal hitherto neglected histories of how Western cultures projected themselves eastwards. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, early modern history, material culture, and Renaissance studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Local access dig.pdf. [Freddolini-Musillo-Art, Mobiity, and exchange.pdf]

Giuseppe Castiglione, 1688-1766 : peintre et architecte à la cour de Chine / Michèle Pirazzoli-T'Serstevens ; avec deux encadrés de Marco Musillo.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-216) and index.

Extraordinaire destin que celui du jésuite milanais Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766).
Peintre de formation, volontaire pour la Chine, Castiglione arrive à Pékin en 1715, à 27 ans. Il ne rentrera jamais en Europe, mais servira, pendant plus de cinquante ans et sous le nom chinois de Lang Shining, trois empereurs successifs. Il mit au point, en tant que peintre, décorateur et architecte à leur cour, un compromis étonnant entre traditions chinoise et européenne. Ce livre retrace, à partir des découvertes et des études récentes, le parcours et l'apport artistique de celui que l'on considère comme l'un des plus grands créateurs à la cour des empereurs mandchous.

Michèle Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens est directeur d'études à l'Ecole pratique des hautes études où elle a enseigné l'art et l'archéologie de la Chine. Elle a été auparavant, pendant près de vingt ans, conservateur au musée Guimet. C'est dans ce cadre qu'elle a entrepris des recherches sur Guiseppe Castiglione. Par ailleurs, elle a dirigé, à partir de 1983, une équipe française travaillant sur les Palais européens commandés par l'empereur Qianlong et dont Castiglione fut l'un des deux maîtres d'oeuvre. Les nombreux articles que l'auteur a consacrés à Castiglione l'ont établie comme l'un des meilleurs spécialistes de l'artiste italien.

The shining inheritance : Italian painters at the Qing court, 1699-1812 / Marco Musillo.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

"During Qing dynasty China, a series of Italian artists was hired through the Jesuit missionary network to work for the Qing Imperial Workshops in Beijing. In The Shining Inheritance: Italian Painters at the Qing Court, 1699-1812, Marco Musillo describes the professional adaptations and pictorial modifications to Chinese traditions that allowed these Italian painters--Giovanni Gherardini (1655-ca. 1729), Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766), and Giuseppe Panzi (1734-1812)--to work within the Chinese cultural sphere from 1699, the year of Gherardini's arrival in China, to 1812, the year of Panzi's death. Musillo focuses especially on the long career and influence of Castiglione (whose Chinese name was Lang Shining), who worked in Beijing for more than fifty years. Serving three Qing emperors, he was actively engaged in the pictorial discussions at court. The Shining Inheritance perceptively explores how each artist's levels of professional artistic training affected his understanding, selection, and translation of the Chinese pictorial traditions. Musillo further demonstrates how this East-West artistic exchange challenged the dogmas of European universality through a professional dialogue that became part of established workshop routines. The cultural elements, procedures, and artistic languages of both China and Italy were strategically played against each other in negotiating the successes and failures of the Italian painters in Beijing."--ECIP data view.

Missionary encounters and artistic deceptions -- Amateurs -- Professionals -- The Italian professional painting training -- The painter's modular mind -- Castiglione's Italian training and Beijing production -- Managing perspectives -- Spaces to walk, paintings to touch -- Lyrical landscapes -- Consecrating mermaids, erasing shadows: forgotten dialogues between China and Italy.

Tangible whispers, neglected encounters : histories of East-West artistic dialogues, 14th-20th century / Marco Musillo.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-266).

The relationship between East and West remains a topic of burning timeliness, particularly in its political dimension. Yet, we can gain a complete understanding of the current tensions only if we consider them within a broader historical framework, spanning from art to diplomacy, from religion to ethnography. The present volume tackles precisely this complex task, offering its reader a rich mosaic of case studies and scholarly research, relating to the mutual approaches between the Euro-American ‘West’, and the Sino-Japanese ‘East’. In the first part of the book, art historian Marco Musillo uses the depictions of Tartars in fourteenth-century Italian frescoes as the starting point of a trajectory leading to eighteenth-century European literature on China. In the second part, the reader is introduced to two cases of diplomatic encounter, one in sixteenth-century Italy between Japanese subjects and local courts, and the other one between Qing China and twentieth-century United States, in the space of the universal exhibition in St. Louis. Finally, the last section proposes three interconnected art historical explorations: the screen design of Chinese origin in colonial Mexico, Medieval Christian tombstones in China, and early-modern Filipino sacred sculpture.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Hot Air and Flying Dragons: Historiographical Fractures and Interpretation

Part I: Ethnography
1. From Tartar Faces to Chinese Bodies: the Transformation of Identities

Part II: Diplomacy
2. Dancing Venues and Theatrical Receptions: Early Modern Diplomacy and the Japanese Legation to Europe
3. American Entertainment and Display: Qing Empress Cixi in the St. Louis Exposition

Part III: Materiality
4. The Routes of the Screen: Local Forms and Transcultural Designs
5. Tombstones and “Anomalous” Canons
6. Filipino Sculptures as Eventful Art