File:Alenio2.jpg

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Here we see the Colossus of Rhodes, guarding that Mediterranean harbor, an image quite familiar to westerners from both classic and popular archaeology.

Giulio Aleni, the equally skilled and effective successor to Matteo Ricci in China, supervised this wood-block printing of a book on the wonders of the western world, titled K'un-yü t'u-shuo (坤輿圖說 "An Illustrated Explanation of Geography"), currently stored at the Vatican Library's Borgia Cinese collection, catalogued Borg. cin. 350, fasc. 30, fols. 75-76.

The Chinese book shown here does not represent the best of Chinese wood-block engraving but appears to be a cheap printing (there is no publishing information given). It was probably sponsored by one of the churches that Aleni fostered in Fukien, where low-cost and quick printing abounded.
Date circa 1620
Source https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/vatican/romechin.html
Author Giulio Aleni

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