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Global trajectories of quadratura painting: the microhistory of Giovanni Gherardini (1655-1723) between Italy, France and China. Transnational dynamics and cultural transfers
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The thesis presented here and financed by the FCT, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, is entitled: Global trajectories of quadratura painting: the microhistory of Giovanni Gherardini (1655-1723) between Italy, France and China. Transnational dynamics and cultural transfers. The aim of the research is to investigate the circulation of quadratura painting between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and identify it as a global artistic phenomenon. This involves understanding the context that welcomed and fostered interest in this pictorial practice. More specifically, the study focuses on analysing quadratura painting as a global artistic phenomenon through the biographical trajectory and case study of the quadraturist Giovanni Gherardini (circa 1655-1723 or 1729). Gherardini, who was educated in the Bolognese school of quadratura, initially arrived in France in 1680 and later travelled to China in 1698. Through the alternation of micro and macro historical investigations entwined with the political, social, and cultural contexts shaping Giovanni Gherardini’s artistic endeavors, it becomes possible to delineate and map a global trajectory of quadratura, that in this case study is Italy-France-China. This is accomplished by employing an investigative framework that seeks not cultural hierarchies but rather points of convergence whenever diverse visual cultures intersect. This approach is made feasible by leveraging the operational concepts put forth by global art history, which aims to provide investigative tools for studies on artistic circulation founded on the notions of cultural encounter and exchange rather than unilateral influence.
The research, therefore, from a data collection point of view, is based on the intersection of documents of different natures, works of art, drawings, archival manuscript documents and printed texts, in a multi-language, and “multi-support” setting. Finally, from a macro perspective, this research offers the possibility to understand how and why the migration of painters and mural paintings occurred in the early modern period, how the interaction and exchange between different visual cultures took place, and above all how knowledge was shared.
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Quadratura; Giovanni Gherardini Global Art History Sino-French relations