Beurdeley Cecile Michael (4 results)
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- First Edition
Seller: Ed Smith Books, Bainbridge Island, WA, U.S.A.Ed Smith Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. dj. First edition. Oblong 4to. Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian painter, Jesuit missionary, arrived in China in 1715 and passed his life at the Court of the Emperors K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung. There he became pre-eminent among a group of European missionary-court painters who combined th…e propagation of the Christian faith (in the face of daunting difficulties) with professional dedication to the artistic commissions of the Emperors. Although trained as a Jesuit, Castiglione was an artist of high accomplishment and in the course of his long stay in Peking (he died there in 1766) he managed to achieve a remarkable synthesis between the traditions and techniques of European painting and those of Chinese painting. He excelled in religious painting, was famous as a portraitist and genre painter, and his paintings of animals, flowers and landscapes earned him an unprecedented honour--first painter at the Court of the Emperor K'ang-hsi. This book provides a catalogue raisonne of the work of Castiglione (called by the Chinese Lang Shih-ning) as well as an account of the meeting of two contrasted techniques of painting and theories of art. For that reason it is an important contribution to art scholarship. However, it is more than that because, partly through the journals and letters of eighteenth-century missionaries in China it offers a fascinating picture of daily life and the great ceremonial occasions at the Court of the Emperors, of the confrontation of two great civilisations, of the intellectual and philosophical disputes that arose from the encounter, of the hardships endured by the missionaries and of the rivalries between the European powers in the mission field. Illustrated. 204 pages. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket (price-clipped).
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Published by Office du Livre, Fribourg, Suisse, 1971
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- First Edition
Seller: Jorge Welsh Books, Lisboa, PortugalJorge Welsh Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. French text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 25.5 x 29 cm.; 1.5 kg.; 204 pages with black and white and colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The dust jacket shows wear marks, edge wear, scuffs and scratches. The interior shows…signs of wear. The top of the front free endpaper shows some scuffs. Remaining interior with minor signs of wear.; This book presents the first comprehensive catalogue of the works of the priest Giuseppe Castiglione, an Italian painter and Jesuit priest who spent most of his life at the court of Beijing, where he died in 1766.
Published by München: Hirmer, 1974
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Seller: Antiquariat Bergische Bücherstube Mewes, Overath, GermanyAntiquariat Bergische Bücherstube Mewes
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fester Einband. 317 S., Taf., 159 Abb., 111 eingekl. Farbtaf., Markenverz. Ktn. 4° Ln.mS.iS. Sprache: Deutsch.
Published by Rizzoli, New York
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB)
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