Lang Shih-ning is the Chinese name used by the Italian, Giuseppe Castiglione. At age of 19, Castiglione entered the Jesuit order in Italy as a novitiate, and his early training included painting and a..
A review of the research done to date indicates that many of the works Giuseppe Castiglione did in the Yungcheng reign (1723-1735) were signed in using Sung-script style found in late Ming dynasty (13..
Lang Shining is the Chinese name of the Italian Giuseppe Castiglione, a native of Milan who entered the Jesuit priesthood at the age of 19, taking up the study of painting and architecture. At 27 he j..
Lang Shining is the Chinese name of the Italian Giuseppe Castiglione, a native of Milan who entered the Jesuit priesthood at the age of 19, taking up the study of painting and architecture. At 27 he j..
Chen Shu (style name Nanlou; sobriquets Shangyuan dizi and Fu'an; late sobriquet Nanlou laoren) was a native of Jiaxing in Zhejiang. He excelled at painting bird-and-flower and grassand-insect sub..
This work dates from 1723, making it the earliest known painting by Giuseppe Castiglione and done approximately eight years after he first arrived in China. Depicted here is an underglaze blue vase de..
Lang Shining was the Chinese name of the Italian Giuseppe Castiglione. At the age of 19, he became a Jesuit novitiate and studied painting and architecture. He arrived in China when he was 27 and even..
Yun Shouping originally had the name Ge and the style name Shouping, by which he later went. A native of Wujin in Jiangsu, he at first excelled at landscape painting but later felt that he could not c..
The peony, the "king of flowers," symbolizes wealth and auspiciousness. Tung Kao has used the unoutlined, or "boneless," method of painting to depict the flower's exquisite bea..
Ju Lian, style name Shigang and sobriquet Guquan, was a cousin of Ju Chao and also a native of Panyu in Guangdong. In his youth he studied painting and calligraphy from Ju Chao. When Ju Chao was visit..
Ju Lian, style name Shigang and sobriquet Guquan, was a cousin of Ju Chao and also a native of Panyu in Guangdong. In his youth he studied painting and calligraphy from Ju Chao. When Ju Chao was visit..
Ju Lian, style name Shigang and sobriquet Guquan, was a cousin of Ju Chao and also a native of Panyu in Guangdong. In his youth he studied painting and calligraphy from Ju Chao. When Ju Chao was visit..
Ju Lian, style name Shigang and sobriquet Guquan, was a cousin of Ju Chao and also a native of Panyu in Guangdong. In his youth he studied painting and calligraphy from Ju Chao. When Ju Chao was visit..
This work depicts a maple forest in autumn with a scene of a herd of deer frolicking and resting. It is very close in size and style to another work in the National Palace Museum collection, "Her..
This work depicts a maple forest in autumn with a scene of a herd of deer frolicking and resting. It is very close in size and style to another work in the National Palace Museum collection, "Her..
Giuseppe Castiglione was a native of Italy. At the age of nineteen he entered the Society of Jesus as a novitiate, also studying painting and architecture. When he was twenty-seven years old, he was s..
Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766), also known by his Chinese name Lang Shih-ning, was a Jesuit missionary from Italy. Known for his exceptionally fine skill in painting, his work was appreciated by 3 e..
Yu Xing, a native of Changshu in Jiangsu, went by the style name Zengsan and the sobriquet Luting. He excelled at painting landscapes, birds-and-flowers, and grasses-and-insects. Both his father (Xun)..
Xia Gui (style name Yuyu) was a native of Qiantang (modern Hangzhou, Zhejiang) and a painter at the Southern Song court. Entering service late in the reign of Emperor Xiaozong, he reached the height o..
The original upon which this work is based, by Zhang Zeduan (active early 12th century), is a masterful unfolding of Song dynastylife and customs at the capital of Bian (Kaifeng) in a long handscroll ..
The Master Wuyong Scroll, version of Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains is composed of six joined pieces of paper and measures more than six meters in length. The first section of paper has traces of da..
Wu Yuanzhi, a famous scholar under Emperor Shizong of the Jin dynasty, excelled at landscape painting. This work illustrates Su Shi's immortal "Ode on the Red Cliff". Su, wearing a gauze..
Wang Hui (style name Shigu, sobriquet Gengyan sanren), a native of Changshu, Jiangsu, received instruction in painting from Wang Shimin (1592-1680) and Wang Jian (1598-1677) while also studying widely..
The Peach Blossom Fishing Boat illustrates the lines from T'ao Yuan-ming's prose poem The Peach Blossom Spring that relate how the fisherman stumbled upon the Spring: "Once he was going u..
Zhao Mengfu (style name Zi'ang, sobriquet Songxue daoren), a member of the Song dynasty imperial clan, went north after the Song fall to serve as an official in the Yuan capital of Dadu. This work..