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Publication : “The Shining Inheritance : Italian Painters at the Qing Court, 1699–1812”.

MUSILLO Marco, The Shining Inheritance : Italian Painters at the Qing Court, 1699–1812, Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, 2016, 192 p.

MUSILLO Marco, The Shining Inheritance : Italian Painters at the Qing Court, 1699–1812, Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, 2016, 192 p.

Présentation de l’éditeur :

During Qing dynasty China, Italian artists were hired through Jesuit missionaries by the imperial workshops in Beijing. In The Shining Inheritance: Italian Painters at the Qing Court, 1699–1812, Marco Musillo considers the professional adaptations and pictorial modifications to Chinese traditions that allowed three of 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, when Gherardini arrived 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 painter’s level 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 dogma 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. Musillo’s subtle analysis offers a compelling methodological model for an increasingly global field of art history.

Marco Musillo is a research fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence.

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Maxime Georges Métraux (4 mai 2016). Publication : “The Shining Inheritance : Italian Painters at the Qing Court, 1699–1812”. Groupe de Recherche en Histoire de l'Art Moderne. Consulté le 7 février 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/p64b


Maxime Georges Métraux

Doctorant en Histoire de l'art moderne (Université Paris IV –Sorbonne, Centre André Chastel – UMR 8150). Expert pour la galerie Hubert Duchemin et chargé d’enseignement à l'Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. Commissaire scientifique de l’exposition "Chic Emprise : Cultures, usages et sociabilités du tabac du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle" (22 juin - 23 septembre 2019) au musée du Nouveau Monde de La Rochelle.

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