Imperial Palace Western-style painter

Author: (French) Bourdelais
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: This book is richly illustrated and divided into 12 chapters, introducing Jesuit missionaries to China such as Louis Chastellux, Jean-Denis Attiret, Giuseppe Castiglione, and Jean-Baptiste Régis, as well as missionaries from the Society of the Missions étrangères like Charles Gravier, Augustinians like Antoine Thomas, and their works, especially those created by court painters in the imperial courts of the Kangxi and Qianlong emperors.