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.

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.