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.

" ... Jesuit missionaries ventured from Europe [to] Asia and Latin America, they brought with them the rich traditions of Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture. What happened to the artistic and social practices already thriving in the communities that the missionaries encountered is told by art historian and Jesuit specialist Gauvin Alexander Bailey.
The Jesuits, determined to convert both spiritually and culturally, put great effort into imparting their own artistic techniques and knowledge. At the same time they were unusually tolerant of the non-European cultures, making artistic accomodations in order to communicate with each particular society. The resulting hybridization was complex: German, Italian, and Flemish as well as the dominant Spanish and Portuguese idioms mingled with multiple Asian and Amerindian traditions.
Bailey argues that this cross-pollination of early modern art became the first truly global visual currency for cultural exchange. Through a sweeping look at Japan, China, Mughal India, and Paraguay, the author focuses on four of the most flourishing artistic encounters and discovers much unrecognized or misunderstood art. He overturns the simple thesis that art was imposed on subject cultures in favour of the more difficult paradigm of exchange. (100 illustrations and index)" --flyleaf.

[Chapter 4 concerns the China Mission]:
"With Much Gallantry and Ornamentation": the Jesuit Mission to China, 1561-1773.
Chinese context for cultural exchange -- Jesuit mission and the arts under Ricci -- Chinese reception of Jesuit mission art of the Ricci period -- Jesuit mission after Ricci -- Artistic acculturation after Ricci -- Jesuit artists at the Qing court -- Mission architecture in the Qing.

Added keywords: inculturation, church architecture, religious art, engraving, icons, cultural exchange.

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.

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.

Haiguo bolan : Qingdai gongting Xiyang chuanjiaoshi huashi huihua liupai gaishuo 海國波瀾 : 清代宮廷西洋傳敎士畫師繪畫流派槪說 = Exílio dourado : estudos gerais sobre a escola de pintura dos missionários ocidentais da corte da Dinastia Qing = The golden exile : survey of the western missionaries' painting school of the Qing Dynasty court / [zhubian Chen Haoxing 主编陳浩星 ; Minzheng zongshu , Aomen yishu bowug uan zhizuo 民政總署, 澳門藝術博物館製作].
附參考文獻.
中葡英文對照.
Accompanies larger catalog.

Haiguo bolan : Qingdai gongting Xiyang chuanjiaoshi huashi huihua liupai jingpin 海國波瀾 : 清代宮廷西洋傳敎士畫師繪畫流派精品 = Exílio dourado : expressoẽs pictóricas da escola dos missionários ocidentais obras de arte da corte da dinastia Qing = The golden exile : pictorial expressions of the school of Western missionaries' artworks of the Qing dynasty court / [zhubian Chen Haoxing ; Aomen yishu bowuguan zhizuo 主編陳浩星 ; 澳門藝術博物館製作].
Catalog of an exhibition held in Macau, February 2002 (In Chinese, Portuguese, and English).

Contents: Qingdai gongting huihua zhidu tanwei 清代宮廷繪畫制度探微 : Tratado sobre o sistema de pinturas de corte na Dinastia Qing : A Treatise on the system of court paintings in the Qing Dynasty -- Lang Shining de fei chenzikuan hua 郎世寧的非臣字款畫 : Pinturas de Lang Shining sem assinatura de dedicatoria Imperial : Paintings by Lang Shining without signature for Imperial dedication / Nie Chongzheng 聶崇正 -- Qinggong renwuhua de ziranzhuyi quxiang 清宮人物畫的自然主義趨向 : Tendencias naturalistas nos retratos Imperiais Qing : Naturalistic trend of the Qing Imperial portraiture / Yu Hui 余輝 -- Xiyang chuanjiaoshi huashi yu Qingdai gongting jianzhu huihua 西洋傳教士畫師與清代宮廷建築繪畫 : Pintores missionarios ocidentaise as pinturas arquitectonicas imperiais da Dinastia Qing : Western missionary painters and Imperial architectural paintings of the Qing Dynasty / Fu Dongguang 傅東光 -- Wu Yushan de chuanshi jiazuo 吳漁山的傳世佳作 : As obras-primas de Wu Li : On some of the extant masterpieces by Wu Li / Zhang Wenqin 章文欽 -- Lang Shining, Wang Zhicheng, Ai Qimeng zai Beijing de wenwu yicun 郎世寧, 王致誠, 艾啟蒙在北京的文物遺存 : Tumulos e monumentos de Lang Shining, Wang Zhicheng e Ai Qimeng em Pequim : Relics and memorials of Lang Shining, Wang Zhicheng, and Ai Qimeng in Beijing / Wu Menglin 吳夢麟 -- Ming-Qing zhi ji de Aomen: Chuanjiaoshi jinru Zhongguo zui zhongyao qudao 明清之際的澳門: 傳教士進入中國最重要渠道 : A porta de entrada dos missionarios na China: Macau nos finais da dinastia Ming e inicios da dinastia Qing : Macao in the Ming and Qing Dynasties: the missionaries main gateway to China --Aomen shi Xiyang meishu chuanru Zhongguo de faxiangdi 澳門是西洋美術傳入中國的發祥地 : Macau : Berco da arte ocidental na China : Macao, the originating course of the introduction of Western aesthetics into China --Ming-Qing zhi jijing Aomen jinru Zhongguo neidi Xiyang huajia gouchen 明清之際經澳門進入中國內地西洋畫家鉤沉 : Pintores Ocidentais vindos de Macau para a China durante as Dinastias Ming e Qing : Western painters entering China through Macao during the Ming and Qing Dynasties / Tang Kaijian 湯開建 -- 年表 : Cronologia da pintura de corte na Dinastia Qing e acontecimentos relacionados: Chronology of court paintings in the Qing Dynasty and related events.

"The influx of missionaries to China began after the European Reformation, with Macau serving as an initial stopover point.....during the late Ming and early Qing...missionaries brought with them Western science, culture and art. In 1715 (54th year of Kangxi's reign) Giuseppe Castiglione worked in the imperial palace .... and won the adminration of Kangxi, Yongzhen and Qianlong. Jean-Denis Attiret, Ignaz Sichelbarth, Louis de Poirot, Giuseppe Panzi and others followed, serving as missionary painters in the Qing imperial court. The integration of Western techniques of chiaroscuro and perspective, along with the characteristics of Chinese traditional painting, nurtured a new school of painting in China....a tremendous influence on Chinese painters. The Provisional Municipal Council of Macau....with the Palace Museum exhibition.... coincides with the second anniversary of the return of sovereignty of Macau to China." --prefatory note.
***Graphic resource: horses, architecture, portraits, landscapes.

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.

A theoretical and historical introduction to the Chinese garden -- The Chinese garden and the concept of the virtue of round brightness -- The Chinese garden and the concept of the vision of jing -- The Chinese gGarden and the Western linear perspective -- The Chinese garden and the concept of the line-method -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Kangxi's record of the Garden of Uninhibited Spring -- Appendix 2: Kangxi's record of the Mountain Hamlet for Summer Coolness -- Appendix 3: Qianlong's later record of the Mountain Hamlet for Summer Coolness -- Appendix 4: Qianlong's record of the Village of Ten-Thousand Springs -- Appendix 5: Qianlong's record of Kunming Lake by Longevity Hill -- Appendix 6: Qianlong's record of the Garden of Clear Ripples on Longevity Hill -- Appendix 7: Qianlong's record of the Best Spring of China on Jade-Spring Hill -- Appendix 8: Qianlong's record of the Garden of Tranquil Pleasure.

Jidu zongjiao yishu zai Hua fazhanshi : Tang Yuan Ming Qing shiqi 基督宗教藝術在華發展史 : 唐元明清時期 / Gu Weimin 顧衛民.
Title also in English on cover and colophon: A history of Christian arts in China : during the period of Tang, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.
Bibliography: p. [330-343].

" ... examines the historic influence of the introduction of Western art and visual theory in China .... Prof. Gu’s book takes a broad historical approach, looking specifically at Christian art brought into China beginning with the Syriac Eastern (Nestorian) Church of the Tang dynasty and chronologically examining Christian painting, sculpture, church architecture, and iconography in various locations in China. A large section is devoted to the Jesuit era."--acquisitions note.

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The Oxford handbook of the Jesuits / edited by Ines G. Županov.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

The "First Fathers" of the Society of Jesus / Pierre Antoine Fabre -- Jesuit organization and legislation : development and implementation of a normative framework / by Markus Friedrich -- Jesuit letters / Paul Nelles -- Spiritual exercises : obedience, conscience, conquest / Silvia Mostaccio -- Financing Jesuit missions / Frederik Vermote -- Rise, character, and development of Jesuit education : teaching the world / Cristiano Casalini -- Elites and the constitution of Jesuit identity / Patrick Goujon -- Political theories and Jesuit politics / by Carlos Zeron -- Jesuit accommodation, dissimulation, mental reservation / Stefania Tutino -- Jesuit missions between the papacy and the Iberian crowns / Giuseppe Marcocci -- Jesuits, conversos, and alumbrados in the Iberian world / Stefania Pastore -- The Jesuit English mission / James E. Kelly -- Jesuits in the Orthodox world / Paul Shore -- Jesuits and Islam in Early Modern Europe / Emanuele Colombo -- Jesuit missionaries and missions in the Iberian colonial world / Rafael Gaune Corradi -- The Jesuits in Asia under the Portuguese padroado : India, China, and Japan (sixteenth to seventeenth centuries) / Hélène Vu Thanh -- Jesuit involvement in Africa, 1548-2017 / Festo Mkenda -- Jesuit visual culture in a machine age / by Mia M. Mochizuki -- Missionary art and architecture of the Society of Jesus between China and Brazil / Gauvin Alexander Bailey -- Jesuit illustrated books / Ralph Dekoninck and Walter S. Melion -- Latinitas Iesu : neo-Latin writing and the literary-emotional communities of the old Society of Jesus / Yasmin Haskell -- Jesuit theater / Anne-Sophie Gallo -- Music in global Jesuit missions, 1540-1773 / David R.M. Irving -- Jesuit mathematics / Romano Gatto -- Astronomy, cosmology and Jesuit discipline, 1540-1758 / Luís Miguel Carolino -- Natural history in the Jesuit missions / Miguel de Asúa -- Jesuit humanism and indigenous-language philology in the Americas and Asia / Stuart M. McManus -- The historiography of the Society of Jesus / Paul Shore -- Tracking Jesuit psychologies : from ubiquitous discourse on the soul to institutionalized discipline / Fernanda Alfieri -- Jesuit anthropology : studying "living books" / Charlotte de Castelnau-l'Estoile -- Anti-Jesuitism in a global perspective / Sabina Pavone -- The Jesuits and the Enlightenment / by Joan-Pau Rubiés -- The Jesuit rites controversy / Claudia von Collani -- The age of suppression : from the expulsions to the restoration of the Society of Jesus (1759-1820) / Niccolò Guasti -- The restoration of the Society of Jesus and the vagaries of writing / Martín M. Morales -- Jesuit missions' past and the idea of return : between history and memory / by Guillermo Wilde -- A Jesuit way of being global? : Second Vatican Council, inculturation, and liberation theology / Frédéric Gugelot -- Jesuits in the twenty-first century / Benoît Vermander, S.J.

EUCHINA note: "...There is (of course) not a chapter on the Jesuits and China, but two chapters have ‘China’ in their title:
17) The Jesuits in Asia under the Portuguese Padroado: India, China, and Japan (sixteenth to seventeenth centuries).
20) Missionary art and architecture of the Society of Jesus between China and Brazil.

This chapter discusses Jesuit strategies in mission art and architecture in the early modern world through two eighteenth-century case studies, one in China and the other in Brazil. The first is an episode in the Jesuit artistic campaign at the Qing court in Beijing when Jesuit artists worked closely with court artists and the Chinese emperor Qianlong to create the Xiyanglou (European-style buildings) at the imperial gardens at Yuanming Yuan. The second is the Jesuits’ introduction of Chinese style decor into church interiors in colonial Brazil as a symbol of Christian victory over paganism. These two episodes will also complicate our idea of Jesuit exceptionalism since non-Christians, Franciscans, and other orders were involved in these activities, sometimes as much as the Jesuits.

On the other hand, chapter 34 (The Jesuit Rites Controversy) deals for the greatest part with China (in addition to India: Malabar rites). Other chapters dealing with China are: chapter 6 (Financing Jesuit missions) that gives special attention to female donors and the finances of Jesuit missions in China; chapter 24 (Music in global Jesuit missions, 1540-1773) contains a section “Music in the missions of China and Japan” and chapter 32 (Anti-Jesuitism in a global perspective) a section “Juan de Palafox from Mexican quarrels to Chinese rites”. In chapter 33 (The Jesuits and the Enlightenment) China plays a prominent role."--(Ad Dudink, June 2, 2019. EUCHINA e-mail listserv)

Local access dig. pdf., see folder: Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits. Each of the 40 chapters is an individual pdf essay, filed alphabetically. OCLC number is for print edition.
See: Oxford Handbooks Online. (Access restricted to subscribing institutions)

"Specialists from the First Historical Archives and the USF Ricci Institute have examined and reproduced art and archival documents related to the Qing dynasty’s Central Asian campaigns (1755-1759). ... it collects commissioned paintings, imperially penned poems, and related documents....key pieces of art and Qing imperial documents...(for) history, art history, military history, and East-West cultural exchange. The Pacification of the Western Regions [Pingding Xiyu zhantu 平定西域戰圖] depicts the Central Asian campaigns during which the Qing suppressed the rebellions of the Dzungar chieftain Dawaci 達瓦齊, leader of the Eleuth (Kalmuk) Mongols, and of the elder and younger Khojas, Muslim Uighur’s based at the souther borders of the Tianshan range....this publication includes selections of related historical documents in Chinese and Manchu, most of which are revealed to the public for the first time. These documents include the following categories:
1. Documents on the military campaigns to supress Dawaci, elder and younger Khojas by the Qianlong emperor as well as the Bureau of Military Affairs.
2. Reports by the General in Chief of Repressing Rebellion.
3. Reports by the governors of Shaanxi and Gansu Provinces on the preparation of horses, vehicles, and army provisions for the campaigns.
4. Imperial poems by the Qianlong emperor after the successful conclusion of the campaigns.
5. Poems submitted to the Qianlong emperor by officials.
6. Documents concerning details and expenditures for the French production of the copperplate engravings of the Pacification of the Western Regions.
7. Reports on various presentations of the war paintings.
Added keywords: Xinjiang 新疆, Zungars 準噶爾, Bushtu Khan, Galdan 噶爾丹, Bandi (General), Yongchang (General), Yarkand Khanate, Batu Khan.

Qing encounters : artistic exchanges between China and the West / ǂc edited by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Ning Ding, with Lidy Jane Chu.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Ning Ding -- Part one. Collection and display. Hybrid spaces of encounter in the Qing era / Richard Vinograd -- Frames of appropriation: foreign artifacts on display in early modern Europe and China / Anna Grasskamp -- Global circulations, local transformations: objects and cultural encounter in the eighteenth century / Kristel Smentek -- Encountering magnificence: European silks at the Qing court during the eighteenth century / Mei Mei Rado -- Part two. Knowledge and information exchange between China and the west. Henri Bertin and the commerce in images between France and China in the late eighteenth century / John Finlay -- Vegetal travel: western European plants in the garden of the Emperor of China / Che-Bing Chiu -- Nineteenth-century canton gardens and the east-west plant trade / Yuen Lai Winnie Chan -- Imperial impressions: the Qianlong emperor's print suites / Marcia Reed -- Part three. Modes and meanings of (adopted) techniques of representation. Hatchings in the void: ritual and order in Bishu Shanzhuang Shi and Matteo Ripa's Views of Jehol / Yue Zhuang -- War and empire: images of battle during the Qianlong reign / Ya-Chen Ma -- From science to art: the evolution of linear perspective in eighteenth-century Chinese art / Kristina Kleutghen -- Shadows in Chinese art: and intercultural perspective / Lihong Liu -- Part four. Chinoiserie, Européenerie, hybridity. Narrating the city: Pu Qua and the depiction of street life in Canton / Yeewan Koon -- Chinoiserie and intercultural dialogue at Brighton pavilion / Greg M. Thomas -- Surface contact: decoration in the Chinese taste / Stacey Sloboda -- Betwixt and between: "Chinese taste" in Peter the Great's Russia / Jennifer Milam.

"Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West examines how the encounters between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides of the East-West divide. These essays reveal how trading and copying images, artifacts, and natural specimens inflected both cultures' visions of novelty and pleasure, battle and power, and ways of seeing and representing. Artists and craftspeople borrowed and adapted forms, techniques, and modes of representation, producing deliberate, meaningful, and complex hybrid creations. By considering this reciprocity from both Eastern and Western perspectives, Qing Encounters offers a new and nuanced understanding of this critical period"--Page 4 of cover.

Another copy Gleeson Library.

Qingdai tongban zhangongtu quanbian 清代銅版戰功圖全編 / Zhang Xiaoguang zhuanji 張曉光撰輯.

一.平定準噶爾回部得勝囹:乾隆御製序.平定伊犁受降.格登鄂拉研營.鄂壘扎拉圖之戰.庫隴類之戰.和落霍撕之捷.烏什酋長獻城降.通古思魯克之戰.黑水圍解.呼爾滿大捷.阿爾楚爾之戰.伊西閏庫爾掉爾之戰.霍斯庫魯克之戰.拔達山汗納款.平定回部獻俘.郊勞回部成功諸將士.凱宴成功諸將士.
二.平定兩金川得勝戰圖:收復小金川I.攻克喇穆及日則丫口.攻克羅博瓦山明碉.攻克宜喜達爾圖山梁.攻克日旁一帶.攻克康薩爾山梁.攻克木思工噶克丫口.攻克宜喜甲索等處調卡.攻克石真噶賊碉.攻克蓄則大海昆色爾山梁並拉枯喇嘛寺等處.攻克賊巢.攻克科布曲索隆古山樑等處調寨.攻克噶喇依報捷.郊台迎勞將軍阿桂凱旋.午門受俘.紫光閣凱宴成功諸將土.
三.平定台灣戰圖:大埔林之戰.進攻鬥六門.攻克鬥六門.攻克大里代賊巢.攻剿小半天山.枯寨之戰.生擒逆首林爽文.集集埔之戰.大武境之戰.生擒莊大田.渡海凱旋.凱旋賜宴.
四.平定廓爾喀戰圖:攻克擦木.攻克瑪噶爾轄爾甲.攻克濟嚨.攻克熱索橋.攻克協布嚕.攻克東覺山.攻克帕朗古.廓爾喀陪臣至京.
五.平定安南戰圖:嘉觀詞[言+戶]之戰.三異柱右之戰.壽昌江之戰.市球江之戰.富良江之戰.阮惠遣侄阮光顯入現賜宴.
六．平定苗疆戰圖：興師圖.剿捕秀山苗匪.攻克操木山.攻解松桃之國.大剿士空寨苗匪解永綏城圍.攻克蘭草坪滾牛坡.攻克黃瓜寨賊巢.攻克蘇麻寨.攻得荼它柳窮等處賊巢.攻克高多寨生擒逆首吳半生.攻克廖家衝生擒首逆石三保.收復乾州.攻克強虎哨.攻克平隴賊巢.捷來圖.攻克石隆苗寨.
七.平定仲苗戰囹:剿捕忡苗南籠圍解.攻克洞灑當丈賊巢.攻克北鄉巴林賊巢.剿淨忡苗餘黨.
八.平定回疆得勝囹:渾巴竹詞之戰.柯爾坪之戰.詳阿爾巴特之戰.沙布都爾莊之戰.阿瓦巴特莊之戰.克復略竹噶爾之戰.收復和闌生擒賊目噶爾勒之戰.生擒首逆張格爾.午門受俘儀式.凱宴成功諸將士.
九.大清國御題平定新疆戰圖 : 平定伊掣受降. 格登鄂拉昕營. 和落霍撕之捷. 呼爾滿大捷.

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.

The delights of harmony : the European palaces of the Yuanmingyuan & the Jesuits at the 18th century court of Beijing / curated by Ellen Lawrence and Karen Turner ; essays by Régine Thiriez and Karen Turner.
Catalog of an exhibition 15 February-10 April 1994.
Includes bibliographical references.

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.