通景画与郎世宁遗产研究

Scenic Illusion Paintings and The Castiglione Legacy

通景画是乾隆朝中西艺术交流的顶峰,但直到近年才有人开始对其进行深入的研究。耶稣会士、意大利画家郎世宁在完善这些非同寻常的作品中起了至关重要的作用,尤其是将中国传统绘画母题、审美趣味与欧洲富有纪念性的奇幻绘画相结合。尽管郎世宁在通景画创作方面享有盛誉,但并非所有的通景画都是由其独立完成,其中许多是由他的学生创作,但这些人的生平却鲜为人知。

Scenic illusion paintings(Tong Jing Hua) have only recently begun to be studied in depth,but their existence marks the zenith of Sino-European artistic exchange at the Qianlong(乾隆)court.TheItalianJesuitpainterGiuseppeCastiglione(LangShining)playedanessentialrolein developing these unusual paintings,particularly in linking Chinese traditional painting subjects and aesthetics with European monumental illusionistic paintings.But despite the credit he receives,the paintings were not all produced by Castiglione alone.Instead,many of the surviving paintings were done by his students,whose lives and contributions have gone largely unremarked.