GIUSEPPE CASTIGLIONE. A Jesuit Painter at the Court of the Chinese Emperors. Translated by Michael Bullock
Rutland/Tokyo: Charles E Tuttle, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 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 the propagation..... More