Biography

Yoshie Kojima (BA and MA, History of Art, Waseda University, Tokyo; PhD. Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) is an Associate Professor at the Department of History of Sophia University of Tokyo. Her main areas of research are the reception of Western art in Japan during the 16^th-17^th centuries, and the Romanesque and Gothic art of Northern Italy. Her publications include “Reproduction of the Image of Madonna Salus Populi Romani in Japan,” in Between East and West: Reproductions in Art (Cracow 2014), and the book Storia di una cattedrale: il Duomo di San Donnino a Fidenza (Pisa 2006).

Project Summary

This project considers how the criteria of Western religious art of　the so-called Counter-Reformation was interpreted and transformed in Japan, during the Christianization of the country and the following period of persecution. It focuses on the study of a "seminary of painting" in Japan directed by Cola, a Italian Jesuit painter.