Marian Demotion: An Engraving of the Virgin and Child in Early Modern China and Problems of Cross-Cultural Translation

IF 0.2 3区 艺术学 0 ART
S. Park
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Images, the Jesuits believed, had a special power to communicate Christianity to potential converts, unhindered by the obstacles of language or cultural difference. This fantasy of images as, in the words of CounterReformation thinker Gabriele Paleotti, a “universal language” able to move the unlettered or those who did not speak one’s language to piety motivated the Jesuits’ extensive use of visual material in their missionary activities. A print in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, however, points to anxiety around, rather than confidence in, images used in missionary endeavors. It provides evidence of when Alessandro Valignano’s
玛丽安降格:中国近代早期圣母与圣子的雕刻及跨文化翻译问题
耶稣会士相信,图像有一种特殊的力量,可以将基督教传播给潜在的皈依者,不受语言或文化差异的阻碍。用反宗教改革思想家加布里埃尔·古拉蒂的话来说,这种对图像的幻想是一种“通用语言”,能够使不识字或不会说自己语言的人虔诚,这促使耶稣会士在传教活动中广泛使用视觉材料。然而,牛津大学阿什莫尔博物馆的一幅版画表明,人们对传教活动中使用的图像感到焦虑,而不是自信。它提供了亚历山德罗·瓦利尼亚诺
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