Getty Research Institute's recent acquisitions are rare Chinese materials -- including a 19th century Korean copy of a huge, two-part map of the world with Chinese text and natural history illustrations, designed a century earlier by a Belgian Jesuit Fr. Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. missionary in China. Under study in the institute's conservation laboratory in preparation for an exhibition, "China on Paper," opening Nov. 6 in the institute's small gallery, the sheets -- each depicting a hemisphere and measuring about 6 by 7 1/2 feet -- blend European and Chinese cartography in a new view of the world.Read original article (here) Catholic and Jesuit history of China (here)
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