CHINA (Taiwan), 1991, a souvenir sheet, Scott 2827a
Painted in 1758, when Castiglione was 71 years old

     
CHINA (Taiwan), 1991, Scott 2826 - 2827

DOMINICA, 1999, 19th and 20th Chinese painting under Western influence, Scott 2249a
showing Castiglione's Eight Prize Steeds.
Pride of place on this mini-sheet of 19 stamps went to Castiglione

THE MARSHALL ISLANDS, 2002, from a sheet of 12 for the Year of the Horse, Scott 799B
Castiglione's Kazaks offering horses in tribute to the Emperor Qianlong

THE MARSHALL ISLANDS, 2002, a souvenir sheet for the Year of the Horse, Scott 800
Castiglione's Emperor Qianlong Leaving for his Summer Residence

ST. VINCENT (Union Island), 2001, images from Ten Prized Steeds, Scott 253

 
ST. KITTS AND NEVIS, 2004, Scott 583
Castiglione's White Gibbon

 
ST. KITTS AND NEVIS, 2004, Scott 584
Castiglione's White Gibbon

GRENADA GRENADINES, 2009,a S/S for the China World Stamp Exposition
featuring four portraits of Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799)
the first three by are attributed to Castiglione

The first three images on the above S/S are (left to right) details from Castiglione's Inauguration Portrait of Qianlong and Wives (1736), Castiglione's scroll The Qianlong Emperor Viewing Paintings (1746-c.1750) by Castiglione and Ding Guanpeng (fl.c. 1738-1768), and The Emperor Qianlong in His Study (before 1767) attributed to Giuseppe Castiglione and Jin Tingbiao (active at court 1757-1767).

CHINA, 1979, the Summer Palace at Beijing, Scott 1472

While Brother Castiglione is more famous and more represented in philately as a painter, he was also an architect. Yuanming Yuan or the Old Summer Palace was laid our during the Yuan dynasty of the Mongols. But it was fully developed during the Qing dynasty. Castiglione had been appointed Minister of the Fengchenyuan, in charge of maintaining the imperial gardens. As such, from 1745 to 1759 he collaborated with his fellow Jesuits, Michel Benoist, Jean-Marie Attiret and Ignatius Sichelbart, to design western style pavilions, which eventually covered about 4% of the land area. Western powers, headed by the British and French, destroyed it in 1860. Twenty six years later it was restored on its original foundations.

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