F. Failla, Bonzi, diavoli e miracoli. Storie e imprese dei gesuiti in Cina (F. Gusella)

Mirroring images and visual translations: Ivories of the Good Shepherd from Portuguese India and their relation to Persian Crosses (16th-17th centuries)

Recent studies have demonstrated that the Jesuit accommodationist method took its first steps in Malabar, in the context of the missions among Saint Thomas Christians. However, the Latinization of these groups was part of a broader missionary strategy across Western Asia to bring local Churches under Catholic authority. The present study exposes the transregional links of this policy between India and Persia by focusing on the iconographic genesis of the "Indo-Portuguese Good Shepherd". The a...

Forms and Allusive Meanings of Ghaṇṭāhera Scenes across South Asian Courts (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries)

The article focuses on the allusive meanings of the ghaṇṭāhera: an Indian nocturnal hunt distinguished by the use of lanterns and bells to attract the wild game. The study outlines the formation of this iconography through the analysis of Mughal hunting treatises and comparable themes in Mughal and Rājpūt paintings. The article explores the political symbolism of the iconography as it emerged in Mughal and Mevāṛī workshops, and the analogies with other hunting scenes created by the Mughal art...

A Gramscian Perspective on Colonial Baroque: Goa 1650s-1720s

The present study provides a comparative analysis of whitewashed stucco moldings and polychrome gilded altarpieces, major elements of the distinct decorative style that originated in colonial Goa during the period under investigation. The study's comparative approach focuses on the combination of these materials and the entangled evolution of their decorative motifs. The article employs Antonio Gramsci's theory of cultural hegemony to analyze the artistic patronage of a selected group of reli...