From Rome to Beijing

Sacred Spaces in Dialogue
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69336-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: East and West

From Rome to Beijing: Sacred Spaces in Dialogue, edited by Daniel M. Greenberg and Mari Yoko Hara, explores the relationship
between Jesuit enterprise and Ming-Qing China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Jesuit order’s global corporation
grew increasingly influential within the Chinese court after 1582, in no small part due to the two institutions shared interests in
artistic and scientific matters. The paintings, astronomical instruments, spiritual texts and sacred buildings engendered through this encounter tell fascinating stories of cross-cultural communication and miscommunication. This volume approaches early modern East-West exchange as
a site of cultural (rather than commercial) negotiations, where two sets of traditions and values intersected and diverged.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Greenberg, Daniel M.

Hara, Mari Yoko

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Barock, Klassizismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Cultural Exchange through a Spatial Lens

Daniel M. Greenberg and Mari Yoko Hara

Part 1: Space and Order: Visible and Invisible Constructions of Beijing

1 An Invisible City: Urban Life and Networks of European Missionaries and Christian Converts in Qing Beijing

Eugenio Menegon

2 Beijing as Political Theater: the 1761 Syzygy in Painting and Legitimizing the Qianlong Regime

Cheng-hua Wang

3 Crossing Bridges and Borders: the Political and Artistic Stakes of New Year’s Celebrations at the Qianlong Court

Daniel M. Greenberg

Part 2: Spaces of Artistic Practice: Invention and Exchange in the Palace Workshops

4 “My Eyes and Taste Are Grown a Little Chinese”: Jean-Denis Attiret, SJ, Acknowledges the Equal Value of European and Chinese Art

Jeffrey Muller

5 The Drawings of Ferdinando Bonaventura Moggi (1684-1761) and the Applied Arts Workshops (Zaobanchu) at the Qing Court

Elisabetta Corsi

Part 3: Space, Knowledge Production, and Cross-Cultural Exchange

6 Before Sinology: Early European Attempts to Translate the Chinese Language in the Sixteenth Century

Florin-Stefan Morar

7 Out of Habit: Jesuits in Flux

Florence C. Hsia

8 What’s in an Image? the Annotated Manuscripts of Jerónimo Nadal’s Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia

Eugenio Menegon

9 The Double Hemisphere Star Atlas (1634): Rhetoric of Empiricism in Sino-Jesuit Technical Images

Mari Yoko Hara

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel M. Greenberg is Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2015, and his work considers the relationship between maps, painting, and state ritual in early modern China.

Mari Yoko Hara is Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, School of Architecture. She received her Ph.D. from
the University of Virginia in 2015 and teaches and writes about early modern Italian art and architecture, particularly in relation
to histories of media practice, knowledge production, and cross-cultural exchange.