Giuseppe Castiglione, 1723 - One Hundred Horses - fine art print

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During the eighteenth century, the Manchu Qing dynasty sponsored a major revival of courtly arts, which attained a new monumental scale, technical finish, and descriptive intricacy. A key figure in establishing this new court aesthetic was the Italian Jesuit Giuseppe Castiglione. A master of vividly naturalistic draftsmanship and large-scale compositions, in Europe he worked as a muralist. Castiglione helped to create a new, hybrid style that combined Western realism with traditional Chinese conventions of composition and brushwork.This monumental scroll, a unique example of a Castiglione preparatory drawing, is the model for one of Castiglione's most famous paintings, the One Hundred Horses scroll preserved in the National Palace Museum, Taipei. The drawing, although done with a brush rather than a pen, is executed almost exclusively in the European manner. Landscape is represented using Western-style perspective, figures are often shown in dramatically foreshortened views, and vegetation is depicted with spontaneous arabesques and cross-hatching. The large scale of the painting also suggests a European influence, as if Castiglione had taken a typical Western canvas and extended its length to make an architectural frieze.

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This classic art artwork was made by Giuseppe Castiglione. The 290 year old version of the painting has the size: Image: 37 in x 25 ft, 10 3/4 in (94 x 789,3 cm) Overall with mounting: H, 38 1/2 in (97,8 cm). Handscroll; ink on paper was applied by the painter as the medium of the work of art. Today, the artwork can be viewed in in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 1991 (public domain). In addition to that, the artpiece has the following creditline: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 1991. Furthermore, alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with an image ratio of 4 : 3, meaning that the length is 33% longer than the width. Giuseppe Castiglione was a male architect, missionary, engraver, painter, drawer, whose artistic style can be attributed mainly to Realism. The European painter lived for a total of 78 years, born in the year 1688 in Milan, Milano province, Lombardy, Italy and passed away in the year 1766.

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