{"id":2292,"date":"2020-03-04T06:57:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T06:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearts.hku.hk\/dev-finearts3\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=2292"},"modified":"2020-06-22T08:34:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T08:34:54","slug":"catholic-realism-in-the-qing-court-qianlongs-jesuit-painters","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/event\/catholic-realism-in-the-qing-court-qianlongs-jesuit-painters\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Realism in the Qing Court"},"content":{"rendered":"
Art and its Histories: Scholars in Lecture<\/h5>\n

Catholic Realism in the Qing Court: Qianlong\u2019s Jesuit Painters<\/h2>\n

Date: 11 January 2020 (Saturday)<\/h6>\n
Time: 10:30am (light breakfast reception begins at 10:00am)<\/strong><\/h6>\n
Venue: Asia Society Hong Kong Center, 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty<\/strong><\/h6>\n
Registration: Register via Asia Society Online Ticketing<\/a><\/h6>\n

One of the greatest cases of Sino-European cultural interaction before 1911 took place in the Qing court when emperors\u00a0Kangxi<\/strong>, Yongzheng<\/strong>, and\u00a0<\/span>Qianlong<\/strong> 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\u2019 foreign painting techniques into court art to extend their own political ends.<\/span><\/p>\n

This talk presents two cases of this remarkable cultural exchange, analyzing the techniques and effects of realism in illusionistic wall paintings designed by the famous Italian brother\u00a0Giuseppe Castiglione<\/strong>\u00a0(Lang Shining, 1688-1766) and in military portraits by the more obscure French brother\u00a0<\/span>Jean-Denis Attiret<\/strong> (Wang Zhicheng, 1702-68). Both artists worked directly for the Qianlong emperor (r.1736-95), faithfully serving his imperial ideology, and both achieved a degree of intercultural fusion rarely seen anywhere else.<\/span><\/p>\n

Art and its Histories: Scholars in Lecture<\/strong>\u00a0is a series of public lectures organized by the Department of Fine Arts, HKU and presented in collaboration with Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Friends of Hong Kong Museum of Art, and The University of Hong Kong Museum Society. The programs aim to deliver current art-historical thinking in an accessible manner presented by specialists in the field. The series is part of the Fine Art Department\u2019s broader dedication to promoting the importance and relevance of art history in Hong Kong.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaker: Greg Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prof. Thomas teaches various aspects of European and American art and architecture from the 18th to 20th centuries, as well as the first-year survey of western art. A specialist in 19th-century French art, he has published Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century France: The Landscapes of Th\u00e9odore Rousseau\u00a0<\/em>(Princeton, 2000) and\u00a0Impressionist Children: Childhood, Family, and Modern Identity in French Art<\/em>\u00a0(Yale, 2010). Recent research has focused on artistic interactions between Europe and China in the 18th and 19th centuries, part of a long-term study of the Chinese palace of Yuanming Yuan. He has published two major articles on Yuanming Yuan and its looting\u00a0(in\u00a0Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide<\/em>, Autumn 2008; and in\u00a0Art History<\/em>, February 2009), along with other essays on landscape painting and ecology, Impressionism, and French and British engagement with Chinese culture. He is also the assistant editor of the 13-volume\u00a0Wuming (No Name) Painting Catalogue<\/em>, (Hong Kong University Press, 2010), which surveys the\u00a0Wuming<\/em> group of painters active in Beijing in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

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