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Art and Ecology, from the Barbizon School to Impressionism

Classroom 238 Room 2.38, Main Building, Main Campus, HKU

Art and Ecology, from the Barbizon School to Impressionism Date: 25 March 2010 (Thursday) Time: 5:00pm Venue: Room 2.38, Main Building, HKU Modern ecology and environmentalism have their origins in [...]

Jesuits and the Arts in China

Faculty Room 436 Room 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU, Hong Kong

Research Symposium: Jesuits and the Arts in China Date: 11 April 2016 (Monday) | 12 April 2016 (Tuesday) Time: 2:00-5:00pm | 10:00am-4:00pm Venue: Room 4.36 Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial [...]

Catholic Realism in the Qing Court

Asia Society Hong Kong Center 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty

One 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.