The Shining inheritance : Italian painters at the Qing court, 1699-1812 / Marco Musillo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Musillo, Marco, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gherardini, Giovanni Battista, 1655-approximately 1723.

Gherardini, Giovanni Battista.

Castiglione, Giuseppe, 1688-1766.

Castiglione, Giuseppe.

Panzi, Giuseppe, 1734-1812.

Panzi, Giuseppe.

Painting, Chinese--Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912.

Painting, Chinese.

Painting, Chinese--Ming-Qing dynasties.

Painting, Chinese--European influences.

Art, European--Chinese influences.

Art, European.

East and West in art.

Jesuit artists--China--History.

Jesuit artists.

Painters--Italy--Biography.

Painters.

History.

Italy.

China.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vii, 184 pages ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : The Getty Research Institute, [2016]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

"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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-174) and index.

ISBN:

9781606064740

1606064746

OCLC:

916408173

Publisher Number:

99975437104