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Ustad Mansur
A Jesuit Priest, Inscribed in Persian: “Jahangir Shahi Amal-E-Mansur”
India (1610)
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More evidence of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir’s religious liberalism, which I referenced during HInduism Week.
Lodovico Mazzanti
Lastly, there is Lodovico Mazzanti’s Der Tod des hl. Franz Xaver, whose death in real life off the coast of China in 1552 after nearly 12 years sailing around India and South-East Asia is remarkable enough in itself.
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Andrea Pozzo
Glory of Saint Ignatius Loyola and the Missionary Work of the Jesuit Order
Italy (c. 1688)
Fresco, Chiesa di Sant' Ignazio, Rome, Italy.
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Anonymous Indian Artist
A Jesuit Priest
India (Mughal Dynasty, mid-1600s)
Ink, Gilding, and Pigment on Paper, mounted on Pasteboard; 31.8 x 21 cm.
Lang Shining (Guiseppe Castiglione)
Empress XiaoSheng Xian
Italy/China (1751)
Giuseppe Castiglione (simplified Chinese: 郎世宁; traditional Chinese: 郎世寧; pinyin: Láng Shìníng) (July 19, 1688 – July 17, 1766), was an Italian Jesuit lay brother who served as a missionary in China, where he became a painter at the court of the emperor.
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Luca Giordano
Saint Francis Xavier Baptizing Proselytes and Saint Francis Borgia
Italy (c. 1680s)
Oil on Canvas, 421 x 315 cm.
Museo di Capodimonte, Naples.
Andrea Pozzo
Allegory of the Jesuits' Missionary Work
Italy (1691-94)
Fresco Sant'Ignazio, Rome
This spectacular composition is almost an inventory of Baroque architectural ceilings and their final triumph. According to Jesuit ideas, the space within a church was a single area in which the faithful congregated. In Sant'Ignazio space is stretched (Pozzo was clever at the illusion of "doubling" the perspective of the real architecture) before exploding into light and glory. Saints, angels, allegories, and floating clouds accentuate the virtuoso effect. The impression is one of exuberance and freedom. In reality, it was worked out using scientific criteria.
Designed to be viewed from a point in the centre of the nave, which is marked by a white stone, Padre Pozzo's ceiling produces the illusion of a palace opening on the sky.
The details of the ceiling fresco represent the Continents.