Category:Illustrated Life of Jesus in Classical Chinese

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English: This book contains fifty-six woodblock-printed illustrations of the life of Jesus, each of them with an explanation in Classical Chinese. This is one of the thirty-seven surviving copies and it includes a foldout map of Jerusalem. Italian missionary Giulio Aleni (1582–1649) published this work in the Jesuit mission of Fukien Province in 1637. Most of the images for this publication were taken from Evangelicae Historiae Imagines, a posthumous work by Jerónimo Nadal published in Antwerp in 1593, containing 153 copperplate engravings of the life of Jesus by European artists. Aleni selected and reproduced Nadal’s engravings using the Chinese technique of woodblock printing, presenting a highly sophisticated work with educational purposes. In this way, he brought to the Chinese eye European religious iconography, with its perspective and chiaroscuro. In some cases, Aleni edited and reinterpreted the original images, adding Chinese-style elements and depicting Chinese people in some of the scenes.

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