Keywords: perspective, European painting and art in China, Nadal, Castiglione, court painting, Haixi pai 海西派, Ripa, engraving, copper engraving, technical books, religious art, books and printing, Ricci and religious icons.

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.

Giuseppe Castiglione, a Jesuit painter at the court of the Chinese emperors / by Cécile and Michel Beurdeley. Translated by Michael Bullock.
Translation of: Castiglione, peintre jésuite à la cour de Chine.
Chinese and Japanese bibliography: p. 201.
"Chinese names of the missionaries": p. 198 (includes lesser known : Belleville, Chalier, Cibot, Damascene, Fiori, Gherardini, Maillac, Tartre).
Biographical notes on Europeans referred to: p. 194-197.
Catalogue (p.161-191) comprised of b/w thumbnails with dimensions, translations of captions and seals.

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Added copies Gleeson Library (call number varies: RBR and Case X: ND623.C485 B413)
Added subject keywords: portraits, portraiture, Qianlong emperor, horses in art, animals in art, Yuanmingyuan 圓明園.

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.

Contents keywords: Early years, 1632-1659, place and tradition, Scholar-Painter and collecting in Changshu, boneless landscape style revival, Songjiang under Western influence, Madame Xu (Candida Xu), her collection of European curiosities, Illustrated Rosary; Concerned for the People, 1659-1666, with Zhu Yizun in 1666, visual narrative; Neo-Confucian scholar and Ming loyalist, 1659-1676, with Chen Hu, agony and skepticism in life and poetry, vist to Xingfu Temple and Buddhist monk Morong, with Wang Meng; in Beijing, 1671-1672, with Xu Zhijian, Jesuit presence in the Qing capital; 1672-1681, with de Rougemont, Ricci On Friendship, aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas; In Macao, 1681-1686, European influence;a rural priest, 1686-1781, in Shanghai, with Wang Hui.

Contents keywords: Early years, 1632-1659, place and tradition, Scholar-Painter and collecting in Changshu, boneless landscape style revival, Songjiang under Western influence, Madame Xu (Candida Xu), her collection of European curiosities, Illustrated Rosary; Concerned for the People, 1659-1666, with Zhu Yizun in 1666, visual narrative; Neo-Confucian scholar and Ming loyalist, 1659-1676, with Chen Hu, agony and skepticism in life and poetry, vist to Xingfu Temple and Buddhist monk Morong, with Wang Meng; in Beijing, 1671-1672, with Xu Zhijian, Jesuit presence in the Qing capital; 1672-1681, with de Rougemont, Ricci On Friendship, aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas; In Macao, 1681-1686, European influence;a rural priest, 1686-1781, in Shanghai, with Wang Hui.
OCLC record incorrectly dated 1996. UMI order number 9400361