THE CONFLICT AND MERGING BETWEEN EASTERN AND WESTERN CULTURES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE CHRISTIAN ART IN MACAO從澳門基督教藝術的角度看中西文化的沖突與融合
This article analyzes the conflict and fusion between Eastern and Western cultures in Macao from the perspective of Christian art, arguing that the local artistic trajectory—from initial importation to the process of acculturation and, ultimately, to production—constitutes a continuous process of cu...
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
2014
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40045/2405 |
| Summary: | This article analyzes the conflict and fusion between Eastern and Western cultures in Macao from the perspective of Christian art, arguing that the local artistic trajectory—from initial importation to the process of acculturation and, ultimately, to production—constitutes a continuous process of cultural contact, tension, and reconciliation. Drawing on an art-historical approach, the text reconstructs key moments in the circulation of agents and visual repertoires within the Macanese space, linking events of the Christian mission to the institutionalization of Western pictorial teaching and practice. The argument centers on the arrival of the Jesuits and, above all, on the role of Giovanni Nicolao, who introduced oil painting to the city and founded a workshop that initiated the formal education of Western painting, training local artists. This is complemented by the study of specific cases: the “Portrait of Jesus Christ,” attributed to Nicolao’s pioneering efforts, and the “Portrait of Matteo Ricci” (1610), presented as one of the first oil paintings executed by a Chinese artist, which evidences both European technical apprenticeship and the cultural mediation of the recipient and the missionary context. The article concludes that, in Macao, Christian art functioned simultaneously as a vector of European aesthetic influence and as a tool of local adaptation, producing enduring visual syntheses. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |