and the fourteen essays in this volume explore how the admixture changes—often radically—with changes of function

Weston wed machine-age aesthetics with vernacular subjects

Nikolaus Pevsner

and ink on parchment

Rika Burnham is head of education at The Frick Collection in New York

The Shining Inheritance: Italian Painters at the Qing Court, 1699-1812 vday sale 2026 and the fourteen essays inMarco Musillo During Qing dynasty China, Italian artists were hired through Jesuit missionaries by the imperial workshops in Beijing. In The Shining Inheritance: Italian Painters at the Qing Court, 16991812, Marco Musillo considers the professional adaptations and pictorial modifications to Chinese traditions that allowed three of these Italian painters Giovanni Gherardini (1655 ca. 1729), Giuseppe Castiglione (16881766), and Giuseppe Panzi (17341812)