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Semedo, Alvaro

(Portugal 1586-1658 Guangzhou, Guangdong) : Jesuitenmissionar

Name Alternative(s)

Zeng Dezhao

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History : China - Europe : Portugal / Index of Names : Occident / Religion : Christianity

Chronology Entries (9)

# Year Text Linked Data
1 1613 Alvaro Semedo kommt in Nanjing an.
2 1617 Sabatino de Ursis, Diego Pantoja, Alfonso Vagnone und Alvaro Semedo werden wegen der Christenverfolgung nach Guanzhou (Guangdong) ausgewiesen.
  • Document: Biographisch-bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon. Hrsg. von Friedrich-Wilhelm Bautz ; fortgeführt von Traugott Bautz. (Herzberg : BBKL, 1990-).
    http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/. (BBKL, Web)
  • Person: Pantoja, Diego de
  • Person: Ursis, Sabatino de
  • Person: Vagnone, Alfonso
3 1618 Sabatino de Ursis, Diego Pantoja, Alfonso Vagnone und Alvaro Semedo werden nach Macao ins Exil geschickt.
  • Document: Dehergne, Joseph. Répertoire des jésuites de Chine de 1552 à 1800. (Roma : Institutum Historicum, 1973). (Bibliotheca Instituti Historici ; vol. 37), [Nachschlagewerk über die jesuitischen Chinamissionare].
    https://archive.org/details/bhsi37. (Deh 1, Publication)
  • Person: Pantoja, Diego de
  • Person: Ursis, Sabatino de
  • Person: Vagnone, Alfonso
4 1623 Entdeckung der Stele in Xi'an (Shaanxi) von 781, des Beweises dafür, dass das Christentum (Nestorianismus) schon früher in China existierte. Alvaro Semedo wird nach Xi'an geschickt. Er ist der erste Europäer, der die Stele zu Gesicht bekommt. Die Frontseite enthält 1800 Schriftzeichen. Johannes Schreck entziffert die Namen von 62 Priestern und eines Bischofs einer nestorianischen Gemeinde.
  • Document: Zettl, Erich. Johannes Schreck-Terrentius : Wissenschaftler und China-Missionar (1576-1630). (Konstanz : Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Gestaltung, 2008). (Schre2, Publication)
  • Document: Walravens, Hartmut (Wal, Person)
  • Document: Malek, Roman (Mal, Person)
  • Person: Schreck, Johannes
5 1629 Alvaro Semedo wird nach Nanchang (Jiangxi) geschickt.
6 1644-1657 Alvaro Semedo verlässt Rom und ist Vize-Provinzial in China (1645-1650, 1654-1657).
7 1649 Alvaro Semedo kommt in Guangzhou (Guangdong) an.
8 1657 Alvaro Semedo kommt in Hangzhou (Zhejiang) an.
9 1855 Semedo, Alvaro ; Martini, Martino. Bellum tartaricum. [ID D17593].
Semedo schreibt : "In painting the Chinese have more curiosities, than perfection. They know not how to make use of either oyles [oils], or shadowing in this art, and do therefore paint the figures of men without any grace at all."
  • Document: The reception of Chinese art across cultures. Ed. by Michelle Ying-ling Huang. (Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014).
    [Enthält] :
    Part I: Blending Chinese and Foreign Cultures
    Chapter One ................................................................................................. 2
    Shades of Mokkei: Muqi-style Ink Painting in Medieval Kamakura
    Aaron M. Rio
    Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 23
    Mistakes or Marketing? Western Responses to the Hybrid Style of Chinese Export Painting
    Maria Kar-wing Mok
    Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 44
    "Painted Paper of Pekin": The Taste for Eighteenth-Century Chinese Papers in Britain, c. 1918 - c. 1945
    Clare Taylor
    Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 65
    "Chinese" Paintings by Zdenek Sklenar
    Lucie Olivova
    Part II: Envisioning Chinese Landscape Art
    Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 88
    Binyon and Nash: British Modernists’ Conception of Chinese Landscape Painting
    Michelle Ying-ling Huang
    Chapter Six .............................................................................................. 115
    In Search of Paradise Lost: Osvald Sirén’s Scholarship on Garden Art
    Minna Törmä
    Chapter Seven .......................................................................................... 130
    The Return of the Silent Traveller
    Mark Haywood
    Part III: Conceptualising Chinese Art through Display
    Chapter Eight ........................................................................................... 154
    Aesthetics and Exclusion: Chinese Objects in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture
    Lenore Metrick-Chen
    Chapter Nine ........................................................................................... 179
    Exhibitions of Chinese Painting in Europe in the Interwar Period: The Role of Liu Haisu as Artistic Ambassador
    Michaela Pejcochova
    Chapter Ten ............................................................................................. 200
    The Right Stuff: : Chinese Art Treasures’ Landing in Early 1960s America
    Noelle Giuffrida
    Part IV: Positioning Contemporary
    Chinese Artists in the Globe
    Chapter Eleven ........................................................................................ 228
    Under the Spectre of Orientalism and Nation: Translocal Crossingsand Discrepant Modernities
    Diana Yeh
    Chapter Twelve ....................................................................................... 255
    The Reception of Xing Danwen’s Lens-based Art Across Cultures
    Silvia Fok
    Chapter Thirteen ...................................................................................... 278
    Selling Contemporary Chinese Art in the West: A Case Studyof How Yue Minjun’s Art was Marketed in Auctions
    Elizabeth Kim S. 31. (Huang1, Publication)

Bibliography (7)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1641 Semedo, Alvaro. Relaçao da propagaçao da fé no regno da China e outros adjacentes. (Madrid : [s.n.] 1641). [Beschreibung von China]. Publication / Seme2
  • Cited by: Claudia von Collani (Col, Person)
2 1642 Semedo, Alvaro. Imperio de la China : i cultura evangelica en èl, por los religios de la Compañia de Iesvs. Compuesto por el Padre Alvaro Semmedo, Procurador General de la propria Comañia de la China, embiado desde allà a Roma el Año de 1640. (Madrid : Impresso por Iuan Sanchez, 1642). [Abhandlung über die katholische Kirche in China].
http://purl.pt/16535. 		Publication / Seme3
3 1643 Semedo, Alvaro. Relatione della grande monarchia della Cina. (Romae : Hermann Scheus, 1643). Darin enthalten ist auch eine Beschreibung der Juden in Kaifeng (Henan). Publication / Seme4
  • Cited by: Walravens, Hartmut (Wal, Person)
  • Cited by: Malek, Roman (Mal, Person)
4 1651 Sanson, Nicholas. Mappe-monde : ou' carte générale du monde dessignée en deux plan-hemisphères. (Paris : Chez P. Mariette, 1651). [Ergänzung des Atlas von Martino Martini ; er enthält auch die Atlanten von Matteo Ricci, Michael Boym und Alvaro Semedo]. Publication / Sans-Mart-Ricc-Boym-
5 1655 Semedo, Alvaro. The history of that great and renowned monarchy of China : wherein all the particular provinces are accurately described : as also the dispositions, manners, learning, lawes, militia, government, and religion of the people ; together with the traffick and commodities of that countrey. Now put into English by a person of quality, and illustrated with several mapps and figures, to satisfie the curious, and advance the trade of Great Brittain ; to which is added the history of the late invasion, and conquest of that flourishing kingdom by the tartars ; with an exact account of the other affairs of China, till these present times. (London : Printed by E. Tyler for John Crook, 1655). [Enthält die englische rev. ed. von Martini, Martino. Bellum Tartaricum].
https://archive.org/details/historyofthatgre00seme. 		Publication / Seme5
6 1667 Semedo, Alvaro. Histoire universelle de la Chine. (Lyon : H. Prost, 1667). Übersetzung von : Semedo, Alvaro. Relaçao da propagaçao da fé no regno da China e outros adjacentes. (Madrid : [s.n.], 1641).
[Enthält] : Martini, Martino. Histoire de la guerre des tartares, contre la Chine : contenant les revolutions éstranges, qui sont arriuées dans ce grand royaume depuis quarante ans. Traduit du latin du P. Martin Martini.
http://www.chineancienne.fr/martini-histoire-de-la-guerre-des-tartares-contre-la-chine/. 		Publication / Sem1
7 1998 Zeng, Dezhao ; He, Gaoji. Da Zhongguo zhi. (Shanghai : Shanghai gu ji chu ban she, 1998). Übersetzung von Semedo, Alvaro. Relação da propagacão da fe nuo reyno da China e outros adjacentes von 1641.
大中国志 		Publication / Zeng-He, -Seme1

Secondary Literature (1)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1613 Purchas, Samuel. Purchas his pilgrimage or relations of the world and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the creation vnto this present : In foure partes : this first containeth a theologicall and geographicall histoire of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent ; declaring the ancient religions before the foud... with briefe descriptions of the countries, nations, states, discoueries, priuate and publike customes, and the most remarkable rarities of nature, or humane industrie, in the same. By Samuel Purchas, minister at Estwood in Essex. (London : Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1613).
[Enthält] : Purchas, Samuel. The map of China. [Der Text basiert auf den Texten von Richard Hakluyt ; die Karte wurde von Theodor de Bry und Alvaro Semedo als Grundlage benutzt].
https://archive.org/details/purchashispilgri00purc. 		Publication / Pur1