I missionari e l’iconoclastia: la tela del Ritiro San Pellegrino by Guido Checchi

“…Pellegrino, depicting an iconoclasm scene occurred in American continent by missionaries, as the long inscription specifies. Some religious are seen to baptize and to convert likely Indians, dressed as Europeans of the Sixteenth Century, and to break down the idols. …”
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Luís Fróis’s História de Japam: aims and methods by Takamura, JA

“…</p> <p>In the História anything that is controversial or could depict the missionaries in a bad light is avoided or minimised; the Jesuits’ errors are usually blamed on their enemies. …”

«Non sufficit orbis». Mobilizing Imageries, Global Catholicism and Imperial Propaganda in the Widened Worlds of the Habsburgs in the Early Modern Age by Maria Vittoria Spissu

“…Under Philip II, the Habsburg Empire reached across the globe a complex confederation that spanned the Atlantic Ocean and included high-tension European areas. Painters and missionaries travelled across the Catholic Monarchy, which was connected through images and cults shared across diverse geographies (the Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru, the Mediterranean and Spanish Italy, the Spanish Netherlands and the Iberian Peninsula). …”
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