- Type:
- Book Chapter
- Author:
- Urte Krass
- Published:
- 2025
- Publisher:
- Routledge
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" id="d8986664e105">The chapter examines a group of objects that has enjoyed great popularity in art historical research on global artifacts in recent years: ivory sculptures of the childlike Christ as a good shepherd on a mountain, richly detailed with animals and biblical scenes. These were produced in Goa and found numerous buyers and collectors in Europe and in Brazil. This chapter links these figures to the idea of the Fifth Empire, which enjoyed widespread popularity above all in Brazil, popularized by the Jesuit António Vieira. According to this hypothesis, John IV of Braganza’s ascent to the throne announced the last, peaceful age before the end of the world. The iconographies of the objects, but also their materiality and stylistic characteristics, are examined in detail in conjunction with Viera’s theory.
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