Illness, Disability, and Deformity in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Art

2017 ◽  
pp. 147-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qianshen Bai
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Chinese Art

Weird Science: European Origins of the Fantastic Creatures in the Qing Court Painting, the Manual of Sea Oddities

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Chinese Art ◽  
Scientific Enterprise ◽  
The Fantastic

In this chapter, Greenberg examines a remarkable, unusual, and previously unpublished painting album produced for the Qing court entitled The Manual of Sea Oddities (Haiguai tu海怪圖記‎). The strange sea creatures depicted in this work are unlike anything seen in Chinese art, but are directly related to images from sixteenth-and seventeenth-century European encyclopedias. After a close consideration of the most relevant European models, this painting is placed within a broader context of Jesuit scientific enterprise and cartography at the Qing court. Together, these works demonstrate a pattern of engagement and curiosity, as the Qing explored how foreign visual modes could be adopted to advance a Chinese imperial agenda.

Salivary Conditioning in the Seventeenth Century.

1963 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jozef Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century

Transmission of Renaissance herbal images to China: the Beitang copy of Mattioli’s commentaries on Dioscorides and its annotations

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-253
Author(s):  
Wu Huiyi ◽  
Zheng Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
National Library ◽  
Materia Medica ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Northern Chinese ◽  
Jesuit Missionaries ◽  
Animal Names ◽  
National Library Of China ◽  
Made In

The Beitang Collection, heritage of a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Jesuit library in Beijing now housed in the National Library of China, contains an incomplete copy of Pietro Andrea Mattioli’s commentary on an Italian edition of Pedanius Dioscorides's De materia medica (1568) bearing extensive annotations in Chinese. Two hundred odd plant and animal names in a northern Chinese patois were recorded alongside illustrations, creating a rare record of seventeenth-century Chinese folk knowledge and of Sino-Western interaction in the field of natural history. Based on close analysis of the annotations and other contemporary sources, we argue that the annotations were probably made in Beijing by one or more Chinese low-level literati and Jesuit missionaries during the first two decades of the seventeenth century. We also conclude that the annotations were most likely directed at a Chinese audience, to whom the Jesuits intended to illustrate European craftsmanship using Mattioli’s images. This document probably constitutes the earliest known evidence of Jesuits' attempts at transmitting the art of European natural history drawings to China.

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