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The Shining Inheritance: Italian Painters at the Qing Court, 1699-1812 vday sale 2026 Nikolaus PevsnerMarco 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)