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3 unusual facts about Giuseppe Panzi


Giuseppe Panzi

He was the last of the Western painters who worked for Qianlong, together with Father Louis Antoine de Poirot (1735-).

Giuseppe Panzi arrived in Pekin in 1773, where the two painters replaced the more famous father Giuseppe Castiglione and Jean-Denis Attiret.

Jesuit China missions

Among the last Jesuits to work at the Chinese court were Louis Antoine de Poirot (1735–1813) and Giuseppe Panzi (1734-before 1812) who worked for the Qianlong Emperor as painters and translators.



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