Abstract

Kanke late Ming Jesuit missionary books images, graphics both. These images are not just text book illustrations in the picture is not just an image annotation, each graphic is not two independent unrelated units, but "in the text as, as in the text," the juxtaposition . In short, the operation of the image in graphics, and text, between the viewer to become a cognition, memory and power of the will of the treasury towards the sacred precinct of the thoroughfare. This article from the aesthetic point of view of religion, first discuss the books of the late Ming Jesuit missionary art characteristics, and discusses the mission implied by the image of art and religion of the cross-domain issues, followed by the painting from the icon and not as visible See the forbearance, discussed the Chinese late Ming Christianity on education and see the image, and the third, Ricci's books from the image, the image of Christianity, the relationship between memory and redemption, and, according to Analysis of "Cheng Mexican Garden" published in four Christian religious images with aesthetic meaning. his paper aims to study the relation of images and texts iii Jesuit missionary books published in the Late Ming period by exploring the function of images, usually juxtaposed with texts, as a way leading to holiness through human faculties of cognition, memory and desire. First , this paper will examine the aesthetic qualities of so called "Jesuit arts" in the context of crossing-boundaries, both cultural and artistic. Second, it will discuss the aesthetic problematic of Icons between the visible and the invisible, which is related to the problematic of seeing and blindness, when looking at the religious / Christian paintings, among the Chinese in Late Ming period. Third, this paper will examine the images of Matteo Ricci's books and their cultural meanings, by investigating the relation of memory and redemption, which is implied in the images of Christian art