Macao’s Church of Saint Paul: A Glimmer of the Baroque in China (Hardcover)
 
作者: César Guillén Nuñez 
書城編號: 174071

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出版社: 香港大學出版社Hong Kong University Press
出版日期: 2008/12/01
頁數: 196
尺寸: 7x10 inches
ISBN: 9789622099227

商品簡介
“César Guillén Nuñez has written a very interesting and much-needed book. For non-specialists, this is a fascinating glimpse into Jesuit operations in Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and it will be very welcome also to specialists in architecture of the early modern world. He has set the stage for the building very well.” — Catherine Zerner, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Brown University “This work is of exceptional importance as it rescues from oblivion a stellar example of the world’s vanishing cultural heritage. A model of scholarly research, it places the Jesuit church of St. Paul in Macao in its rightful position of pre-eminence. The author’s sensitive analysis, including useful comparisons with contemporary examples of churches in Goa, India as well as in other Portuguese colonies, permits a good understanding of the special role that was played by the Church of St. Paul as a source of inspiration for later examples of religious architecture. Without a doubt, this book will remain an indispensable source for future studies in the field.” — Dr. Humberto Rodríguez-Camilloni, Professor of Architecture and Director, Henry H. Wiss Center for Theory and History of Art and Architecture, Virginia Tech

Description:
Macao’s Ruins of St. Paul (correct name Church of Madre de Deus) is the only example of Baroque art and architecture in China. This beautifully illustrated book explores anew the now vanished but once renowned Church, as well as the Jesuit university college of which it was part. Both Church and College were destroyed by fire in 1835. From the perspective of the history of art they have remained poorly explored. The author remedies this by imaginatively reconstructing their ground plans, architecture and decoration in the light of new information in original documents that he has found in archives and libraries in Europe and Macao. In his re-creation of the buildings, he illustrates and draws on the evidence of selected Jesuit buildings in Italy, Portugal, Spain and Portuguese India and considers the historical Counter-Reformation environment that eventually led to the College of Madre de Deus in China. The most recent art-historical findings on the Mannerist and Baroque art of the Jesuits in Europe and Iberian colonies are also taken into account. The author, who first identified the surviving façade of the Church as a retable-façade, an unusual type of Iberian and Latin American church façade resembling an altarpiece, brings his argument to its logical conclusion by relating it to the Church’s plan and decoration. An extremely important aspect of the art promoted by the Jesuits, centring on the cult of passive martyrdom, is also candidly discussed. This book will enable the general public to better appreciate the Ruins and provides much of interest and value to scholars, students, architects, art museums and cultural organizations.

Author:
César Guillén Nuñez is currently Research Fellow and Art Historian at the Macao Ricci Institute. He is a specialist in colonial Spanish and Portuguese art history and has studied at, among other institutions, the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Formerly curator of art exhibitions in Hong Kong and Macao, he has written extensively on his specialty, as well as on nineteenth-century China trade and contemporary Hong Kong and Macao art.

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