For the Love of God: Castiglione and the Jesuits at the Qing Court

Howard Rogers

Dorothy Berinstein

Yu Hui

Guiseppe Castiglione. Portrait of the Emperor Troating for Deer. 1741. Hanging scroll, ink

and color on silk; 267.5 x 319 cm. Palace Museum, Beijing (Berinstein, fig. 1)

Unidentified artist. Hongli Spearing a

Tiger. Qianlong reign period (1736-

1795). Hanging scroll, ink and color on

silk.

Palace Museum, Beijing

(Berinstein, fig. 2)

Attributed to Li Zhaodao, Emperor Minghuang’s Journey to Shu. 12th-century copy of a Tang

dynasty painting. Handscroll, color and ink on silk; 55.9 x 81 cm. National Palace Museum, Taipei.

Benozzo Gozzoli. The Procession of the Magi (detail, east wall). 1459. Fresco.

Chapel of the Magi, Palazzo Medici-Riccardi Florence (Berinstein, fig. 6)

“The Triumphal Entry into Rome,” panel 4 from the tapestry series The History of

Constantine the Great, woven by Comana-La Plance, circa 1623-25 after designs by

Peter Paul Rubens and Pietro da Cortona. 15’11 3/4” x 17’10 1/4” Philadelphia Museum

of Art (Berinstein, fig. 7)

Castiglione. Rising Sun Against Oceanic Sky. Undated. horizontal scroll, color on silk;

93.7 x 186.2 cm. Palace Museum, Beijing, China

Castiglione. Portrait of

The Qianlong Emperor on

Horseback. Ink and color on

silk. Palace Museum,

Beijing.

Castiglione. Assembled Auspicious

Objects or Assembled Blessings. 1715.

Hanging scroll, ink, color on silk; 173 x

86.1 cm

National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Jean Denis Attiret. Ten Noble Steeds. Album leaf; ink and color

on paper; 24.4 x 29 cm. Palace Museum, Beijing.

Jean Denis Attiret. Ten Noble Steeds. Album leaf; ink and color

on paper; 24.4 x 29 cm. Palace Museum, Beijing.

Castiglione. Hongli shooting a hare. Hanging scroll, ink and

color on silk; 93.7 x 186.2 cm. Palace Museum, Beijing.