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Italy by way of India : translating art and devotion in the early modern world /

"Italy by Way of India recovers peripheral narratives of image-making from the margins of cultural exchange between India and Italy during early modernity and promotes indigenous artists as central to the construction of Christian art in India and to the representation of India in Europe"-...

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Author / Creator: Benay, Erin E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Turnhout : Harvey Miller Publishers, [2021]
Series:Studies in medieval and early Renaissance art history.
Subjects:
Thomas, > Apostle, Saint, > active 1st century > Influence.
Thomas, > Apostle, Saint, > active 1st century.
Christian art and symbolism.
Relations.
History.
Church history.
India, South > Church history.
India > Relations > Italy > History.
Italy > Relations > India > History.
Christian art and symbolism > India, South.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
International relations.
India.
Italy.
South India.
Table of Contents:
  • Translating saints
  • An apostle in India
  • Chapter I. Saint Thomas and the making of Christianity in southern India. Re-situating Christianity in India ; Thomas, builder of churches ; Cross and the lotus ; Darśan in the church ; Reform of Thomas Christianity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
  • Chapter II. Indian Christian art in the age of colonialism. Devotional objects in churches ; Devotional objects for domestic use
  • Chapter III. Possessing India. Indian things in Italy ; Shopping in India ; Putting Saint Thomas on the map ; Bringing Saint Thomas's India to Florence ; Experiencing Indian objects in the Medici collections
  • Chapter IV. An Indian saint in Italy. Deaths of Saint Thomas ; First translation ; Mistranslation.

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