European oil painting was delivered to China after its hundreds of years' development. Many missionaries had contributed on the growth of oil painting in China. Giuseppe Castiglione was one of the forerunners. He was an Italian, who was born in Milan. He came to China in Kangxi dynasty and was invited to settle in the Imperial Palace. In fact, his movement to China was for transmission of Christianity. But at last he left in China as an imperial court painter and anticipated into the design of the Old Summer Palace. He experienced three dynasties of Ting with a fifty-year art life in the Forbidden City in China.
Giuseppe Castiglione was put in an important position for the magical painting technique from the Western World he brought to China. He displayed the fascinating attraction of bright and shade in oil painting, and was appreciated by the three emperors. It was considered that he was a jack-of-all-trades in painting. Figure, portrait, mountain, water, bird, and so on, it was hardly found what he could not paint in details with an exquisite skill of art. And he was the representative of the palace during his fifty years in China.
At the sixty-first year of Emperor Kangxi, Giuseppe Castiglione was called in. Kangxi was addicted in science and art at that time. Although Christian was not supported by Kangxi, Giuseppe Castiglione was treated as a respectful artist. His contribution to oil painting art of China is inestimably.
没有评论:
发表评论