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🇨🇳 🇻🇦 𝗝𝗶𝗮𝗼 𝗕𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘇𝗵𝗲𝗻 Court Painter 🏯 👨‍🎨 🎨 (active 1689–1726 Anno Domini A.D. ) Great Conversion Story Jiao Bingzhen is a well-known figure in the history of Chinese art. In the late 17th Century, he became one of the first Chinese painters to integrate Western techniques of perspective and detail into traditional Chinese painting styles 🖌️ . His large body of work is still much appreciated in China and throughout the world today. What is not so well known about Jiao Bingzhen is that he was a convert to the Catholic faith 🙏 ⛪ . Jiao stands as a notable example of the small but significant "movement of conversion" that took place among scholar-officials serving at the imperial court in the 17th century during the transition from the Ming dynasty to the Qing dynasty. Jiao was not only a painter, but also a mathematician 🧮 , astronomer 🔭 , and important civil official 👨‍💼 . By the time of Jiao's earliest known paintings (1689), he was already working for the Imperial Astronomical Bureau on the lengthy project of updating the Chinese calendar 📆 in collaboration with the Jesuits and their more precise scientific methods. #Catholic https://us.magnificat.net/ https://grok.com/imagine/post/cf5a1db5-581d-40e2-9050-0356df1217db?source=post-page&platform=web