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The life and the works of Giuseppe Castiglione
Giuseppe Castiglione (郎世宁; Lángshìníng) (19 July 1688 – 17 July 1766) was an Italian Jesuit missionary who also served as an artist at the imperial court under three emperors: Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong.
His work is notable for blending European and Chinese artistic traditions.
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Giuseppe Castiglione was born in the parish of San Marcellino in Milan; his baptismal certificate is kept in the diocesan historical archive.
On Jan.
16, 1707 he became a Jesuit, entering the novitiate of Genoa.
Emperor Kangxi requested a talented Italian painter for the imperial court. Castiglione moved to Portugal in 1710, in Coimbra, awaiting embarkation for Asia.
Castiglione here painted the chapel of the novitiate and made two portraits for the children of the queen of Portugal, now lost.
From Lisbon in 1714, after stopping in Goa, Macau, and Canton, in 1715 Castiglione arrived in China, as a missi