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- Title
ECUMENISM IN IMAGES AND TRANS-CONTEXTUALITY IN PORTUGUESE 16<sup>TH</sup> CENTURY ART: ASIAN REPRESENTATIONS IN PENTECOSTES BY THE PAINTER ANTÓNIO LEITÃO IN FREIXO DE ESPADA À CINTA.
- Authors
Serrão, Vítor
- Abstract
Following the identification of an unusual 16th century painting forgotten until recently in a chapel in Freixo de Espada à Cinta on the distant frontier of North-east Portugal and an attempt to prepare the biography and gather the pictorial corpus of António Leitão, the gentleman-painter, this article raises a series of issues about the representation of a Pentecostes which shows images of Asians. Some of the central aspects mentioned and analysed are the power assumed by the images, the categorisation of Portuguese society itself at the end of the Renaissance and the creation of stereotypes by means of religious images.
- Subjects
LEITAO, Antonio; CATHOLIC Church &; art; PORTUGUESE painting; MANNERISM (Art); ASIANS in art; CHRISTIAN union; PENTECOST in art; HISTORY; SIXTEENTH century
- Publication
Bulletin of Portuguese / Japanese Studies, 2010, Issue 20, p125
- ISSN
0874-8438
- Publication type
Article