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The return of a saint’s body to its rightful resting place was an event of civic and spiritual significance retold in Medieval sources and substantiated by artistic commissions. Legends of Saint Thomas Apostle, for instance, claimed that the martyred saint had been miraculously transported from India to Italy during the thirteenth century. However, Saint Thomas’s purported resting place in Ortona, Italy did not become a major stopping point on pilgrimage or exploration routes, nor did this event punctuate frescoed life cycles or become a subject for Renaissance altarpieces as one would expect. Instead, the site of the apostle’s burial in Chennai, India has flourished as a terminus of religious pilgrimage, where a multifaceted visual tradition emerged, and where a vibrant local cult of ‘Thomas Christians’ remains to this day. An unlikely destination on the edge of the ‘known’ world thus became a surprising source of early modern Christian piety. By studying the art and texts associated with this little-known cult, this book disrupts assumptions about how knowledge of Asia took shape during the Renaissance and challenges art historical paradigms in which art was crafted by locals merely to be exported, collected, and consumed by curious European patrons. In so doing, Italy by Way of India proposes that we redefine the parameters of early modern visual culture to account for the ways that global mobility and the circulation of objects profoundly influence how cultures see and know each other as well as themselves

246 --- 225-05 --- 225-05 Personen in het Nieuwe Testament. Apostelen --- Personen in het Nieuwe Testament. Apostelen --- 246 Art et symbolisme chretiens --- 246 Christelijke kunst en symbolisme --- Art et symbolisme chretiens --- Christelijke kunst en symbolisme --- Christian religion --- Iconography --- saints --- cultural diffusion --- religious art --- kunst en godsdienst --- Thomas [Apostle] --- anno 1500-1799 --- Italy --- India --- art chretien

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"This book is the first modern collection of studies on the reception of the apostles and their companions in Late Antiquity, earlier Middle Ages and the Orthodox Churches. The volume opens with an exploration of the nature of the stories about the apostles in Late Antiquity, highlighting some of the questions and problems these stories tried to answer. Chapter 2 takes us to the Forum Romanum and the Apostle Peter, and the latter's antagonist Simon Magus appears again in the next chapter. The next five chapters focus on Paul and Thecla. The first two look at the relationship between the canonical Acts of the Apostles and the Acts of Paul by concentrating on spatial aspects as well as sex and intermarriage, respectively. Three chapters concentrate on Thecla and show that the Acts of Paul and Thecla and Thecla herself enjoyed a very high reputation, were seen as authoritative - if not canonical in certain circles - and a source of inspiration for later hagiographers. We see the apostle John at work in the fairly unfamiliar Acts of John by Prochorus and the Acts of Timothy, but also his connection with the church S. Giovanni a Porta Latina in Rome. The section on Thomas takes up the textual tradition of the Acts of Thomas with new manuscripts, and the reception of the Acts in the hagiography and liturgy of the Orthodox Churches. The last two chapters focus on Philip, whose Acts Acts shows that in fourth-century Hierapolis local paganism was still a factor to be taken into account and to be fought, but also that the treatise promoted ideals of civility and self-control, which were not that far removed from those in the Gospels. As has become usual, the volume ends with a detailed index."

Church history --- 229*42 --- 229*42 Apocriefe handelingen der apostelen van Andreas, Barnabas, Philippus, Jacobus, Johannes, Matthaeus, Paulus, Petrus, Pilatus, Thomas, Paulus en Thecla, Petrus en Paulus --- Apocriefe handelingen der apostelen van Andreas, Barnabas, Philippus, Jacobus, Johannes, Matthaeus, Paulus, Petrus, Pilatus, Thomas, Paulus en Thecla, Petrus en Paulus --- Christianity --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Peter, --- Paul, --- John, --- Thecla, --- Thomas, --- Didymos, --- Didymos Judas Thomas, --- Didymus, --- Ḟoma, --- Petrus --- Pierre --- Peter --- Cephas, --- Pedro, --- Petrus, --- Pietro, --- Simon Bar Jona, --- Simon Peter, --- Simon Petrus, --- Pavel, --- Pavol, --- Paulus, --- Paulos, --- Pōghos, --- Paweł, --- Pawełm --- Būlus, --- Pablo, --- Paulo, --- Paolo, --- Pál, --- Apostolos Paulos --- Saul, --- القديس بولس الرسول --- بولس، --- 사도바울 --- Ḟēkla, --- Tecla, --- Thècle, --- Thekla, --- Giovanni, --- Hovhannēs, --- Ioann, --- Jan, --- Jean, --- Jehan, --- Johannes, --- Yūḥannā, --- Beloved Disciple --- Acts of Paul and Thecla --- Acts of Peter --- Acts of Paul --- Acts of John --- Acts of Thomas --- Acts of Philip --- Acta Philippi --- Actes de Philippe --- Apocryphal Acts of Philip --- Atti di Filippo --- Bible. --- Philip, Acts of --- Acta Joannis --- Acta Johannis --- Akten des Johannes --- Johannes-Akten --- Praxeis Iōannou --- Paul, Acts of --- Acti Pauli --- Apocryphal Acts of Paul --- Apocryphal Acts of Peter --- Peter, Acts of --- Acta Pauli et Theclae --- Actes de Paul et Thècle --- De miraculis sancti Thomae apostoli --- Passio sancti Thomae apostoli --- Thomasakten --- Acts of Paul and Thecla. --- Acts of Peter. --- Acts of Paul. --- Acts of John. --- Acts of Thomas. --- Acts of Philip. --- Middle Ages. --- 600-1500. --- Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500. --- Apôtres --- Acta apocrypha --- Peter, - the Apostle, Saint. --- Paul, - the Apostle, Saint. --- John, - the Apostle, Saint. --- Thecla, - Saint. --- Thomas, - Apostle, Saint, - active 1st century. --- Peter, - the Apostle, Saint --- Paul, - the Apostle, Saint --- John, - the Apostle, Saint --- Thecla, - Saint --- Thomas, - Apostle, Saint, - active 1st century