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TIL of Giuseppe Castiglione, an Italian Jesuit missionary to China who became the court artist of the Qing Emperors. Rather than just force European art on the Chinese or copy Chinese styles, Giuseppe blended the two styles together, which created an entirely new fusion painting style in Chinese art

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