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Rome and her Legacy
Art and its Histories: Scholars in Lecture Rome and her Legacy: Classical Art in the 21st Century Date: 21 April 2020 (Tuesday) Time: 6:30-7:30pm Registration: Click here to register via Zoom (With [...]
Colloquium on Pearl River Delta, Art, and Global Exchange in Maritime Trade History
Hong Kong Museum of Art 10 Salisbury Rd, Tsim Sha TsuiThis paper looks at the use of portraiture by the Manchu official Qiying (1787-1858) who was sent by the Daoguang Emperor (r.1820-1850) to Guangdong for the negotiations of the Nanjing Treaty after the Opium War (1839-1841). By looking at the different practices involved in the gifting of portraits in Europe and China, the paper will highlight the problems of communications and exchanges between Britain and China during this period. It will also show how Guangdong’s leading merchants were instrumental in these discussions and how they were active players in Guangdong’s local community and Qing politics.
Catholic Realism in the Qing Court
Asia Society Hong Kong Center 9 Justice Drive, AdmiraltyOne of the greatest cases of Sino-European cultural interaction before 1911 took place in the Qing court when emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong hosted and patronized a number of Jesuit artists and artisans from Europe. The Jesuits were trying to impress the emperors with supposedly superior scientific knowledge in order to help spread Christianity in China, while the emperors integrated the missionaries’ foreign painting techniques into court art to extend their own political ends.
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