Giuseppe Castiglione : gesuita e pittore nel celeste impero = Jesuit and painter in the Celestial Empire / a cura di Alessandro Andreini e Francesco Vossilla.
Bilingual edition in English and Italian.
Traduzioni a cura di Baret Magarian-Miriam Hurley, Mark Roberts, Antonino Licciardi.
Errata slip inserted.
Includes bibliographical references and index to the illustrations.

"Il volume è stato concepito su iniziativa della Società di Studi Giuseppe Castiglione-Lang Shi Ning, in occasione del 300ʻ́ anniversario della missione di Giuseppe Castiglione in Cina (1715-2015) e come primo contributo di una sua riscoperta italiana in vista del 250ʻ́ anniversario della morte a Pechino (1766-2016)"

Presentazione / Larry Yu-Yuan Wang -- Introduzione / Alessandro Andreini e Francesco Vossilla -- Da Ignazio a Bergoglio : I gesuiti dalla parte dell'umanesimo / Alessandro Andreini -- The present state of historiography on the Jesuits: with special reference to art, to China and to brother Castiglione / John O'Malley, SJ. --Giuseppe Castiglione and the Chinese Rites controversy / Gianni Criveller -- La "desiderata missione" Giuseppe Castiglione a Pechino / Francesco Vossilla e Zhang Zheng Ying -- Beyond images : the connection between Giuseppe Castiglione’s painting and traditional Chinese painting / Ho Chuan-Hsing -- Feeling like Giuseppe Castiglione S.J. / Jerry Graham S.J. -- Il pittore venuto dall'Occidente del Mare il suo imperatore / Francesco Vossilla -- Giuseppe Castiglione alias Lang Shining e la critica occidentale / Marco Fagioli -- Il gesuita fiorentino Ferdinando Bonaventura Moggi (1684-1761) : alcune riflessioni sul collaboratore, confratello, nonché fraterno amico di Giuseppe Castiglione e la critica occidentalle / Carlo Cinelli -- Documenti.

Imperial illusions : crossing pictorial boundaries in the Qing palaces / Kristina Kleutghen.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: a new vision of painting -- Painted walls and pictorial illusions -- The study of vision -- Contemplating the future -- Peacocks and cave-heavens -- Staging Europe -- The beauty in the garden -- Epilogue: illusions, imperial and otherwise.

"In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best artists of the imperial painting academy, including a number of European missionary painters, used Western perspectival illusionism to transform walls and ceilings with visually striking images that were also deeply meaningful to Qianlong. These unprecedented works not only offer new insights into late imperial China's most influential emperor, but also reflect one way in which Chinese art integrated and domesticated foreign ideas. In Imperial Illusions, Kristina Kleutghen examines all known surviving examples of the Qing court phenomenon of "scenic illusion paintings" (tongjinghua), which today remain inaccessible inside the Forbidden City. Produced at the height of early modern cultural exchange between China and Europe, these works have received little scholarly attention. Richly illustrated, Imperial Illusions offers the first comprehensive investigation of the aesthetic, cultural, perceptual, and political importance of these illusionistic paintings essential to Qianlong's world." -- Publisher's description.

During the golden reign of the Qianlong emperor (r. 1736-1795), Chinese and European court artists collaborated to create a new painting genre. Combining imported European pictorial techniques with Chinese subjects and materials, these artists created life-size illusionistic paintings called tongjing hua that offered Qianlong opportunities to connect with the painted scenes. Still hidden inside restricted areas of the Forbidden City, these paintings have received little to no study. But the life-size scale and unsurpassed quality of tongjing hua, produced at the height of Sino-European artistic exchange, offer new insights into the private thoughts of the Qianlong emperor. Through exhaustive research in the imperial archives, original translations of imperial poetry, and studies of other eighteenth-century imperial court paintings, tongjing hua are rediscovered in four case studies. Chapter One provides the historical background of European pictorial presence and illusionistic painting in China. Chapter Two examines the omnipresent theme of illusion in Qianlong's court painting through four versions of his inscribed double portrait One or Two. Chapter Three establishes the conceptual foundations of tongjing hua with the Forbidden City's Juanqin Zhai. Chapter Four examines the Pictures of the European Palaces and Waterworks, an album of twenty engravings that provide a visual record of a now-lost tongjing hua. Chapter Five explores the unstudied Qianlong Watching Peacocks in their Prime, notable for its imperial inscription, and connections to Central Asian tribute relationships and Daoist paradise. Chapter Six presents Portrait of Qianlong's Consort with Yongyan as a Child, an unpublished, unstudied tongjing hua with several unique and unprecedented features.
Individually, these works express Qianlong's private thoughts about his family, identity, and legacy that are absent from his public self-presentation. As a genre, however, tongjing hua not only enable his personal self-expression relative to a lifelong obsession with visual illusion, but also reflect eighteenth-century China's widespread fascination with European pictoriality that is found throughout its visual culture. This dissertation rediscovers these little-known paintings and investigates their perspectival illusions as the consummate illustrations of Qianlong's perspective and the new visuality of late imperial China.--OCLC record (from introduction).
Local access only. [Kleutghen.pdf]

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.

Xin shijian : Lang Shining yu Qinggong Xiyangfeng 新視界 : 郎世寧與清宮西洋風 = New Visions at the Ch’ing court : Giuseppe Castiglione and Western-style trends / zhubian Wang Yaoting 主編王耀庭. [陳韻如文字撰述 ; 蒲思棠 (Donald Brix)英譯].
Bibliography: p.138-139.
民國96 [2007]. ***Graphic resource.
See exhibit website for more details.