| Author | Kleutghen, Kristina Renée |
| Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
| Language | English |
| Type | Article (in Periodical) |
| Shelf | Digital Archives |
| Call Number | N7983.K54 2026 |
| Description | 21 p. |
| Note | Adding works to words: a letter about Qing court painter Jean-Denis Attiret, S.J. (1702–68) in the Getty Research Institute / Kleutghen, Kristina Getty research journal, 2026-09, Vol.21, p.25-46
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In March 1769, Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, S.J. (1718–93), the head of the French Jesuit mission in Beijing, penned a letter about the Jesuit artist Jean-Denis Attiret, S.J. (1702–68, Ch. Wang Zhicheng 王致誠). The Getty Research Institute holds a copy of this letter, which is the most comprehensive written source on Attiret and his decades in China serving the Emperor Qianlong 乾隆 (r. 1736–95). Yet Amiot’s letter is unillustrated, establishing a pattern of studying Attiret more through written descriptions than through his paintings. This essay reintegrates the French and Chinese textual, visual, and material evidence of Attiret’s transcultural exchanges, thereby working in the same French Enlightenment modes in which Amiot wrote and Attiret painted. By reading Amiot’s letter against Attiret’s extant documentable oeuvre, the text acquires additional value for what it omits as much as for what it reveals. |
| Author | Couceiro, Gonçalo |
| Place | Paris |
| Publisher | Sorbonne |
| Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
| Language | French |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
| Shelf | Admin. Office |
| Call Number | DS796.M2 C692 1992 |
| Description | 261 l., [xxxvi] l. of ill. : ill. ; 29 cm |
| Note | L'Eglise de Notre-Dame de l'Assomption (ou de St. Paul) a Macao et l'art de la Compagnie de Jesus en Chine : art et adaptation / Gonçalo Couceiro. "Une thèse de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, IVe Section, Sciences historiques et Philologiques." "Avec l'appui de la Fundação Oriente et de l'Instituto Cultural de Macau." Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, IVe Section, 1992. Bibliography l. 248-253. |
