The composite ivory carvings of the Good Shepherd Rockery visually capture the intricate network of connected histories from the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian Ocean. The sophisticated interplay between missionary patrons and local agents resulted in the creation of these unique works, which are without precursors or replicas in the artistic culture of the early modern period. Based on a transdisciplinary approach to material and documentary sources, this book explores the genesis of this original iconography with a focus on the practices of emulation and dissimulation performed by patrons, artists, and local agents – an equivocal game of mirrors that ultimately charged the artworks with multiple interpretive layers and allusive meanings.
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The Good Shepherd Rockery from Portuguese India, 1570s to 1650s
Emulation and Dissimulation in a Case of Missionary Art
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The Good Shepherd Rockery from Portuguese India, 1570s to 1650s
Emulation and Dissimulation in a Case of Missionary Art
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ArtSubtopic
Religious ArtTable of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Note on terminology
- List of Figures
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Scholarship and curatorship between national identity and colonial otherness
- 3 A descriptive overview on technical-stylistic and iconographic features
- 4 At the “origin of the pure heart”: Graphic models and local prototypes
- 5 Before the rockery: Rock crystal prototypes from Sri Lanka
- 6 Rhizomatic perspectives on arborescent motifs
- 7 In a grove of crosses: Translating Indo-Syriac symbology into the Latin figurative canon
- 8 Interstices and interferences: Further exchanges from the Indic artistic landscape
- Bibliography
- Index
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