中国的师范教育源于１８８７年（清朝光绪二十三年）上海南洋公学设立师范院，而师范性的美术教育则以晚清学政李瑞清首于１９０６年在两江师范开设图画手工科为起点。１６０１年明朝万历年间意大利传教士利玛窦携油画圣母像来京，至１７１５年（清朝康熙五十四年）郎世宁等人 Normal education in China originated in 1887 (Twenty-three years of the Guangxu Dynasty) Shanghai Normal University set up a teacher training school, and fancy art education to the late Qing Dynasty Li Ruiqing first in 1906 in the two Jiang Normal Graphic Art Division as a starting point . In 1601, the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci in the Ming Dynasty Wanli years came to Beijing with the painting of the Madonna, until 1715 (fifty-four years of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty)