" ... Jesuit missionaries ventured from Europe [to] Asia and Latin America, they brought with them the rich traditions of Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture. What happened to the artistic and social practices already thriving in the communities that the missionaries encountered is told by art historian and Jesuit specialist Gauvin Alexander Bailey.
The Jesuits, determined to convert both spiritually and culturally, put great effort into imparting their own artistic techniques and knowledge. At the same time they were unusually tolerant of the non-European cultures, making artistic accomodations in order to communicate with each particular society. The resulting hybridization was complex: German, Italian, and Flemish as well as the dominant Spanish and Portuguese idioms mingled with multiple Asian and Amerindian traditions.
Bailey argues that this cross-pollination of early modern art became the first truly global visual currency for cultural exchange. Through a sweeping look at Japan, China, Mughal India, and Paraguay, the author focuses on four of the most flourishing artistic encounters and discovers much unrecognized or misunderstood art. He overturns the simple thesis that art was imposed on subject cultures in favour of the more difficult paradigm of exchange. (100 illustrations and index)" --flyleaf.

[Chapter 4 concerns the China Mission]:
"With Much Gallantry and Ornamentation": the Jesuit Mission to China, 1561-1773.
Chinese context for cultural exchange -- Jesuit mission and the arts under Ricci -- Chinese reception of Jesuit mission art of the Ricci period -- Jesuit mission after Ricci -- Artistic acculturation after Ricci -- Jesuit artists at the Qing court -- Mission architecture in the Qing.

Added keywords: inculturation, church architecture, religious art, engraving, icons, cultural exchange.

L'introduzione della prospettiva in Cina: Buglio, Ricci, Sambiaso, Gherardini--Capitolo Primo: L'autore Nian Xiyao. Eclettismo e curiositá -- Importanza della figura de Nian Xiyao -- Splendeurs et misères de Nian Gengyao -- Il periodo de auge: 1726-1735 -- Nian Xiyao Soprintendente alla manifattura de Jingdezhen -- Nian Xiyao e il Figurismo de Jean-François Foucquet, S.I. -- Opere de trigonometria e i "piedi di Urania" -- Capitolo secondo: Il testo: Shi xue o Studio della percezione -- Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum e Shi xue -- Shi xue nelle collezioni europee -- Contenuto delle due Prefazioni -- Zou Yigui -- Tang Dai -- Capitolo terzo: Termini cinesi utillizati come sinonimo di prospettiva -- Il metodo delle linee (線法) -- metodo dei triangoli rettangoli (句股法)-- metodo dei pieni e dei vuoti (凹凸法) -- Shen Gua e l'arte di sommare cose piccole (造微之術) : ovvero l'alternativa cinese alla prospettiva -- Appendice: Traduzione del testo delle due Prefazioni, Testo originale delle Prefazione, Selezione di brani da Shixue.
Includes bibliographical references: p. 134-164.

La fábrica de las ilusiones : los jesuitas y la difusión de la perspectiva lineal en China (1698-1766) / Elisabetta Corsi.
Spanish and Chinese.
Contains passages and facsimile pages from the Shixue 視學, the Chinese translation of the Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-229) and index.

Jidu zongjiao yishu zai Hua fazhanshi 基督宗教藝術在華發展史 / Gu Weimin zhu 顧衛民著.
Title also in English: A history of Christian arts in China.
Bibliography: p. [327-338].
Shanghai edition of the 2003 Hong Kong volume with different pagination and simplified characters. Hong Kong edition includes subtitle: Tang Yuan Ming Qing shiqi 唐元明清時期.

" ... examines the historic influence of the introduction of Western art and visual theory in China .... Prof. Gu’s book takes a broad historical approach, looking specifically at Christian art brought into China beginning with the Syriac Eastern (Nestorian) Church of the Tang dynasty and chronologically examining Christian painting, sculpture, church architecture, and iconography in various locations in China. A large section is devoted to the Jesuit era."--Hong Kong edition acquisitions note.

Jidu zongjiao yishu zai Hua fazhanshi : Tang Yuan Ming Qing shiqi 基督宗教藝術在華發展史 : 唐元明清時期 / Gu Weimin 顧衛民.
Title also in English on cover and colophon: A history of Christian arts in China : during the period of Tang, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.
Bibliography: p. [330-343].

" ... examines the historic influence of the introduction of Western art and visual theory in China .... Prof. Gu’s book takes a broad historical approach, looking specifically at Christian art brought into China beginning with the Syriac Eastern (Nestorian) Church of the Tang dynasty and chronologically examining Christian painting, sculpture, church architecture, and iconography in various locations in China. A large section is devoted to the Jesuit era."--acquisitions note.

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The Oxford handbook of the Jesuits / edited by Ines G. Županov.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

The "First Fathers" of the Society of Jesus / Pierre Antoine Fabre -- Jesuit organization and legislation : development and implementation of a normative framework / by Markus Friedrich -- Jesuit letters / Paul Nelles -- Spiritual exercises : obedience, conscience, conquest / Silvia Mostaccio -- Financing Jesuit missions / Frederik Vermote -- Rise, character, and development of Jesuit education : teaching the world / Cristiano Casalini -- Elites and the constitution of Jesuit identity / Patrick Goujon -- Political theories and Jesuit politics / by Carlos Zeron -- Jesuit accommodation, dissimulation, mental reservation / Stefania Tutino -- Jesuit missions between the papacy and the Iberian crowns / Giuseppe Marcocci -- Jesuits, conversos, and alumbrados in the Iberian world / Stefania Pastore -- The Jesuit English mission / James E. Kelly -- Jesuits in the Orthodox world / Paul Shore -- Jesuits and Islam in Early Modern Europe / Emanuele Colombo -- Jesuit missionaries and missions in the Iberian colonial world / Rafael Gaune Corradi -- The Jesuits in Asia under the Portuguese padroado : India, China, and Japan (sixteenth to seventeenth centuries) / Hélène Vu Thanh -- Jesuit involvement in Africa, 1548-2017 / Festo Mkenda -- Jesuit visual culture in a machine age / by Mia M. Mochizuki -- Missionary art and architecture of the Society of Jesus between China and Brazil / Gauvin Alexander Bailey -- Jesuit illustrated books / Ralph Dekoninck and Walter S. Melion -- Latinitas Iesu : neo-Latin writing and the literary-emotional communities of the old Society of Jesus / Yasmin Haskell -- Jesuit theater / Anne-Sophie Gallo -- Music in global Jesuit missions, 1540-1773 / David R.M. Irving -- Jesuit mathematics / Romano Gatto -- Astronomy, cosmology and Jesuit discipline, 1540-1758 / Luís Miguel Carolino -- Natural history in the Jesuit missions / Miguel de Asúa -- Jesuit humanism and indigenous-language philology in the Americas and Asia / Stuart M. McManus -- The historiography of the Society of Jesus / Paul Shore -- Tracking Jesuit psychologies : from ubiquitous discourse on the soul to institutionalized discipline / Fernanda Alfieri -- Jesuit anthropology : studying "living books" / Charlotte de Castelnau-l'Estoile -- Anti-Jesuitism in a global perspective / Sabina Pavone -- The Jesuits and the Enlightenment / by Joan-Pau Rubiés -- The Jesuit rites controversy / Claudia von Collani -- The age of suppression : from the expulsions to the restoration of the Society of Jesus (1759-1820) / Niccolò Guasti -- The restoration of the Society of Jesus and the vagaries of writing / Martín M. Morales -- Jesuit missions' past and the idea of return : between history and memory / by Guillermo Wilde -- A Jesuit way of being global? : Second Vatican Council, inculturation, and liberation theology / Frédéric Gugelot -- Jesuits in the twenty-first century / Benoît Vermander, S.J.

EUCHINA note: "...There is (of course) not a chapter on the Jesuits and China, but two chapters have ‘China’ in their title:
17) The Jesuits in Asia under the Portuguese Padroado: India, China, and Japan (sixteenth to seventeenth centuries).
20) Missionary art and architecture of the Society of Jesus between China and Brazil.

This chapter discusses Jesuit strategies in mission art and architecture in the early modern world through two eighteenth-century case studies, one in China and the other in Brazil. The first is an episode in the Jesuit artistic campaign at the Qing court in Beijing when Jesuit artists worked closely with court artists and the Chinese emperor Qianlong to create the Xiyanglou (European-style buildings) at the imperial gardens at Yuanming Yuan. The second is the Jesuits’ introduction of Chinese style decor into church interiors in colonial Brazil as a symbol of Christian victory over paganism. These two episodes will also complicate our idea of Jesuit exceptionalism since non-Christians, Franciscans, and other orders were involved in these activities, sometimes as much as the Jesuits.

On the other hand, chapter 34 (The Jesuit Rites Controversy) deals for the greatest part with China (in addition to India: Malabar rites). Other chapters dealing with China are: chapter 6 (Financing Jesuit missions) that gives special attention to female donors and the finances of Jesuit missions in China; chapter 24 (Music in global Jesuit missions, 1540-1773) contains a section “Music in the missions of China and Japan” and chapter 32 (Anti-Jesuitism in a global perspective) a section “Juan de Palafox from Mexican quarrels to Chinese rites”. In chapter 33 (The Jesuits and the Enlightenment) China plays a prominent role."--(Ad Dudink, June 2, 2019. EUCHINA e-mail listserv)

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