油画从外来艺术发展成为中国绘画的组成部分,经历了漫长的学习、吸收和成长过程。可分为以下几个时期。早期,距今400年前,意大利天主教士利玛窦等人来华传教,把欧洲油画作品带进中国。明万历二十九年(1601)利玛窦向明神宗朱翊钧所献礼品中就有天主像、圣母像等。这种精细逼真的绘画,使中国画家感到惊异,但并未给予较高的艺术评价,也 Oil painting from foreign art into an integral part of Chinese painting, has gone through a long learning, absorption and growth process. Can be divided into the following periods. Early, 400 years ago, the Italian Catholic mission Ricci and others came to China to bring European paintings into China. Twenty-nine years of the Ming Wanli (1601) Ricci to the Ming Shenzong Zhu Yijun gift there is a gift of God, Madonna like. This fine and realistic painting surprised Chinese painters but did not give a high artistic evaluation