An Unexpected Masterpiece

2020-08-25T08:40:51+00:00September 9, 2020|Categories: , |Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Art and its Histories: Scholars in Lecture An Unexpected Masterpiece: Luo Ping’s Ghost Amusement Scroll Date:  9 September 2020 (Wednesday) Time: 6:30-7:30pm Registration: Click here to join the Free Facebook [...]

Catholic Realism in the Qing Court

2020-06-22T08:34:54+00:00January 11, 2020|Categories: |Tags: , , , , |

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.

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