I grandi cicli decorativi. Il Quattrocento

Benedict Nicolson, Cristopher Wright
Electa editrice

Simonetta Coppa
Kriterion

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Etgraphiae - Cartograf

Marco Musillo
Getty Publications

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 Chinese cultural sphere from 1699, when Gherardini arrived in China, to 1812, the year of Panzi's death. Musillo focuses especially on the long career and influence of Castiglione (whose Chinese name was Lang Shining), who worked in Beijing for more than fifty years. Serving three Qing emperors, he was actively engaged in the pictorial discussions at court.

The Shining Inheritance perceptively explores how each painter's level of professional artistic training affected his understanding, selection, and translation of the Chinese pictorial traditions. Musillo further demonstrates how this East-West artistic exchange challenged the dogma of European universality through a professional dialogue that became part of established workshop routines. The cultural elements, procedures, and artistic languages of both China and Italy were strategically played against each other in negotiating the successes and failures of the Italian painters in Beijing. Musillo's subtle analysis offers a compelling methodological model for an increasingly global field of art history. 

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Skira

Questo volume è interamente dedicato alla scuola pittorica indiana Rajput e illustrato da oltre 250 opere provenienti da un'importante collezione privata. Le opere di questa raccolta, tutte tempere su carta di varie dimensioni, realizzate tra la fine del Cinquecento e l'inizio del secolo scorso, illustrano i poemi epici e le opere poetiche indiane più famose, modi musicali classici, ricevimenti a corte, cerimonie religiose, scene di caccia e battaglia, ritratti di principi e principesse. Preziose immagini e importanti testimonianze artistiche di un mondo esotico che non esiste più.

Carlo Marcora
Edizioni Paolo Cattaneo

Ezia Gavazza, Federica Lamera, Lauro Magnani
Cassa di Risparmio di Genova e Imperia

Ezia Gavazza, Lauro Magnani
Sagep Editrice

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Edizioni Olivares

Anna Ottani Cavina, Emilia Calbi
Mondadori Electa

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Grafiche Editoriali Artistiche Pordenonesi

Carlo Bertelli
Banca Agricola Milanese