Marco Musillo

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...