Matteo Ripa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Matteo Ripa

Italian painter

Date of Birth: 29-Mar-1682

Place of Birth: Eboli, Campania, Italy

Date of Death: 29-Mar-1746

Profession: missionary, painter, cartographer, printmaker, explorer

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Matteo Ripa (29 March 1682, Eboli – 29 March 1746, Naples) was an Italian priest who was sent as a missionary to China by Propaganda Fide, and between 1711 and 1723 worked as a painter and copper-engraver at the Manchu court of the Kangxi Emperor, under the Chinese name Ma Guoxian (???).