Jesuit art

In Jesuit Art, Mia Mochizuki considers the artistic production of the pre-suppression Society of Jesus (1540–1773) from a global perspective. Geographic and medial expansion of the standard corpus changes not only the objects under analysis, it also affects the kinds of queries that arise. Mochizuki...

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Main Author: Mochizuki, Mia M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Brill 2022©2022, 2022
Series:Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences
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