White Gibbon
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Title
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White Gibbon
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Description
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Giuseppe Castiglione (Chinese name Lang Shih-ning) was a native of Italy. At the age of 19, he entered the Jesuit order as a novitiate. In addition to his religious training, he also studied painting and architecture. In 1715, he was sent to China, where he would spend the rest of his life as a painter in the Inner Court. He was a skilled painter of figures, flowers and birds, and especially horses and dogs. In this painting, a white gibbon sits on the root of cedar and next to red maple saplings. With one hand resting on its knee, the other scratches an itch in leisurely contemplation. The artist has not only succeeded in capturing the appearance of the gibbon, but also its disposition.
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Subject
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Castiglione, Chinese painting, empirical collection, monkey, gibbon
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Publisher
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National Palace Museum
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Date Created
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unclear
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Format
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album leaf, ink and colors on silk, 151.2cm x 91.9cm
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Identifier
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故畫00095400000
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Source
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https://digitalarchive.npm.gov.tw/Painting/Content?pid=3646&Dept=P
White Gibbon