A History of Christian Arts in China

This book is the first one on the history of Christian Arts in China written by a Chinese author. It introduces stone carvings, frescoes, and monastery church buildings created by Nestorianism during the Tang and Yuan Dynasties. It also talks about church building and stone carvings created by the Franciscans of the Roman Catholic Church in Beijing, Yangzhou, Quanzhau during the Yuan Dynasty. The book discusses Western religious paintings brought by Jesuits in the Ming and Qing Dynasties as well as the oil paintings and Chinese-styled wood carvings they created in Macau, Beijing, the royal court artistic activities of Jesuits and the spread of western perspective painting style. It also displays the ancient church buildings in Macau, Beijing, Nanjing, Shanhai, Hangzhou, including churches houses, Forts, graveyards and their wall paintings. The author collected most of his data through site surveys and photographs. He seeks to arrange the precious historical data systematically to present to readers. Readers will learn the wisdom and crafts of ancient western priest artists and Chinese Christian, and the evolution of western Christian arts in China. The art combined the characteristics of both hemispheres not only is the precious historical heritage of China, but a treasure of world Christian art history