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Giovanni Niccolo (also Giovanni Nicolao) was a Jesuit Italian painter who in 1583 was sent to found a seminary of painting, named the Seminary of Painters in Japan. This seminary, founded in 1590 and exiled from the Japanese archipelago fewer than three decades later, would become the largest school of western painting in Asia. While there, Niccolo also created devotional objects for use by Japanese Catholic churches and converts.^[1] His preferred images were primarily the Salvator Mundi and Madonna.^[2]

References

^ Lach, Donald F, and Edwin J Van Kley: Asia in the Making of Europe, vol.II, book I; The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1993, p.67
^ Bailey, Gauvin A. “Creating a global artistic language in late renaissance Rome: artists in the service of the overseas missions, 1542-1621”, p.21

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[1] Lach, Donald F, and Edwin J Van Kley: Asia in the Making of Europe, vol.II, book I; The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1993, p.67

[2] Bailey, Gauvin A. “Creating a global artistic language in late renaissance Rome: artists in the service of the overseas missions, 1542-1621”, p.21

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 [[Image:Oda Nobunaga-Portrait by Giovanni NIcolao.jpg|thumb|Imagined Portrait of [[Oda Nobunaga]], by [[Jesuit]] painter Giovanni Niccolo, 1583-1590.]]
-'''Giovanni Niccolo''' (also Giovanni Nicolao) was a [[Jesuit]] [[Italy|Italian]] painter who in 1583 was sent to found a seminary of painting, named the ''[[Seminary of Painters]]'' in [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]] [[Japan]]. This [[seminary]], founded in 1590 and exiled from the Japanese archipelago fewer than three decades later, would become the largest school of [[western painting]] in Asia. While there, Niccolo also created devotional objects for use by Japanese Catholic churches and converts.<ref>Lach, Donald F, and Edwin J Van Kley: ''Asia in the Making of Europe, vol.II'', book I; The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1993, p.67</ref> His preferred images were primarily the [[Salvator Mundi]] and [[Mary (mother of Jesus)|Madonna]].<ref>Bailey, Gauvin A. “Creating a global artistic language in late renaissance Rome: artists in the service of the overseas missions, 1542-1621”, p.21</ref>
+'''Giovanni Niccolo''' (also Giovanni Nicolao) was a [[Jesuit]] [[Italy|Italian]] painter who in 1583 was sent to found a seminary of painting, named the ''[[Seminary of Painters]]'' in [[Japan]]. This [[seminary]], founded in 1590 and exiled from the Japanese archipelago fewer than three decades later, would become the largest school of [[western painting]] in Asia. While there, Niccolo also created devotional objects for use by Japanese Catholic churches and converts.<ref>Lach, Donald F, and Edwin J Van Kley: ''Asia in the Making of Europe, vol.II'', book I; The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1993, p.67</ref> His preferred images were primarily the [[Salvator Mundi]] and [[Mary (mother of Jesus)|Madonna]].<ref>Bailey, Gauvin A. “Creating a global artistic language in late renaissance Rome: artists in the service of the overseas missions, 1542-1621”, p.21</ref>
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