Xian'e Changchun Album - Bamboo and morning glory · Celebrating the Year of the Horse: the treasure of a Qing Court Jesuit Painter

Xian'e Changchun Album - Bamboo and morning glory

Title: Xian'e Changchun Album - Bamboo and morning glory
Description: This album consists of sixteen leaves divided among blossoms of the four seasons and scattered with rocks, birds, insects, and other plants. The subjects appear to have been taken from scenes in the imperial gardens, and all of them appear to have been meticulously arranged. The placement of the main and subsidiary subjects is also rendered perfectly and the coloring is gorgeous, making this work a masterpiece synthesizing the best of Chinese and Western painting traditions.
Creator: Castiglione, Giuseppe
Subject: Castiglione, Chinese painting, empirical collection, flower
Publisher: National Palace Museum
Date Created: between 1722 and 1735
Type: Chinese painting styles
Format: album leaf, ink, and colors on silk, height: 33.3 cm (13.1 in); width: 27.8 cm (10.9 in)
Identifier: 故畫00122200012
Source: https://digitalarchive.npm.gov.tw/Painting/Content?pid=4965&Dept=P
Language: Chinese (language)
Relation: Xian'e Changchun Album - Chrysanthemum
Rights: NO COPYRIGHT, open data, the National Palace Museum has released images in the "Collection Database" and "Selected Image Downloads" sections for free and unlimited use.