Italy in China. The Western Buildings in the Old Summer Palace
Yuanmingyuan in Beijing
International Workshop
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome
The Beijing Tsinghua Institute for Digitization THID (Tsinghua
University Beijing) and the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute
for Art History, Rome are conducting collaborative research devoted to
the now ruinous Western Buildings that are part of the Old Summer Palace
Yuanmingyuan in Beijing, and which were planned and erected around 1750
by Italian/French Jesuits and Chinese architects and craftsmen. The aim
of the project is to comprehensively investigate and understand the
Western Buildings and to analytically visualise them in virtual
3D-models. The project examines the Sino-Western experience in the
planning and construction processes with the mutual exchange of
techniques and methods, concepts and models, and explores the
interaction between Chinese and Western conceptions of architecture,
gardens, fountains, construction and hydraulic technologies. The
workshop aims to present this collaboration project to a wider audience
and to give a report on the current state of the work in progress.
PROGRAM
14:30
Welcome address:
Sybille EBERT-SCHIFFERER (Rome)
Opening words:
YIN Lina (Beijing), Elisabeth KIEVEN (Rome)
Introduction:
Hermann SCHLIMME (Rome)
15:00
YIN Lina (Beijing)
The Yuanmingyuan. Current state of research and analysis of textual and
visual sources
15:45
SHANG Jin (Beijing)
The Western Buildings: Research questions and the role of virtual
3D-models
16:30 Break
17:00
GAO Ming (Beijing) and PIAO Wenzi (Beijing)
New findings based on the building survey and re-examination of historic
photographs
17:45
Hermann SCHLIMME (Rome)
Sino-Western knowledge transfer concerning plays of water and hydraulic
technology: Benoist – Bélidor – Morland
18:30 Closing remarks
Scientific Concept:Yin Lina, Alexandra Harrer, Hermann Schlimme
Secretary: Ornella Rodengo, rodengobiblhertz.it, 0039-06-69993-222
Quellennachweis:
CONF: Italy in China (Rome, 25 Mar 14). In: ArtHist.net, 11.03.2014. Letzter Zugriff 29.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/7178>.