"The Holy Name has been revealed.
His authority conferred;
throughout the world in this human realm
the sound of the teaching supreme!"
--"Singing of the Source and Course of Holy Church" by Wu Li 吳歷 (1632-1718), Chinese painter, poet, and Jesuit
In my research for a paper on the Chinese Rites Controversy, I have come in contact with the Chinese Christian art of the time. This post is merely a collection of images from the time (16th and 17th centuries) that depict the eternal Truth of Christ in the style of the Middle Kingdom.
