List of figures
1.1 Dashuifa (Great Fountain) Xiyanglou, Yuanming Yuan, China (completed 1759).
1.2 Southern Cathedral (Nan Tang) in Beijing.
1.3 Charles de Belleville, altar of the Assumption, before 1688. Oak. Cathédrale Saint-Front, Périgueux, France.
1.4 Anonymous Chinese painter. Façade of the Beitang church of the French Jesuit mission, c.1701–3 (detail). Gouache on canvas.
1.5 Charles de Belleville, Ceiling in the sacristy of the Jesuit church of Nossa Senhora de Belén de Cachoeira, Bahia, Brazil (c.1719).
1.6 Detail of a ceiling from the Chang Ling tomb of Ming emperor Yongle, 1424.
1.7 Anonymous, ceiling of the sacristy, Jesuit Church of Nossa Senhora do Rosário in Embu, São Paulo, Brazil (c.1735–40).
1.8 Bureau cabinet, German or English, c. 1735. Wood, japanned, with engraved brass mounts.
1.9 Chinoiserie panels, choirstall of the Cathedral of Nossa Senhora da Assunção, Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil (c. 1753).
1.10 Anonymous, wooden temple lion, Jesuit residence of Nossa Senhora do Rosário in Embu, So Paulo, Brazil (early 18th century).
1.11 Stone temple lion, forecourt of the Franciscan church of Santo António (popularly known as São Francisco), João Pessoa (c. 1734 or 1779).
2.1 A nocturnal procession during Holy Week arriving at the door of the restored church of La Inmaculada, Concepción.
2.2 Part of a rhomboidal grid marked in reddish pigment on a rock face in the Serranía de Santiago.
2.3 Rock drawing given an ancient interpretation by a 20th-century Chiquitano.
2.4 Schematic drawings of incised decoration on three bowls disinterred at Campo Grande (top), El Abasto (middle) and Puerto Rico (bottom).
2.5 European engraving of Xaraye people in the 16th century.
2.6 Drawing of a painted or tattooed Caduveo (Kadiwéu) woman by Guido Boggiani in 1892 (right); and a drawing on paper made by a Caduveo (Kadiwéu) woman in the 1930s for Claude Lévi-Strauss (left).
2.7 Wall painting behind a crucifix in the sacristy, San Rafael.
2.8 View of San Miguel showing the lozenge-shaped mouldings on the doors.
3.1 and 3.2. Woman making a clay pot according to the traditional technique called acordelado
3.3 First sequence of clay pot making, before decoration, nearly finished.
4.1 Il Paraguai e Paesi Adiacenti. Venezia 1785. Courtesy of Geography and Maps Division, Library of Congress.
4.2 Photograph of the first page of the Guarani letter, Mission Jesús de Tavarangue (AGN IX 36-9-6 Misiones, 1782).
5.1 Cours du fleuve Maragnon, autrement dit des Amazones par le P. Samuel Fritz, Missionnaire de la Compagnie de Jésus. Author Samuel Fritz (1656–1725).
5.2 Detail from Cours du fleuve Maragnon, autrement dit des Amazones par le P. Samuel Fritz, Missionnaire de la Compagnie de Jésus. Author Samuel Fritz (1656–1725).
6.1 Portuguese and Spanish Jesuit missions of South America, 16th–18th centuries. In red: Portuguese missions; red circles where missions use two variants of the lingua geral. In blue: Spanish missions; blue circles where missions use Guaraní as a general language.
6.2 Jesuit missions of South America, 16th–18th centuries. Spanish frontier missions in blue; penetration of Portuguese missions in red.
9.1 First page of ‘Doutrina Christã na Linguoa Brasilica’.
9.2 Protocol for baptising those on the point of death in ‘Doutrina Christã na Linguoa Brasilica’.
12.1 Astronomical observations by Buenaventura Suárez in Paraguay.
12.2 Cover page of Buenaventura Suárez’s Lunario, Barcelona edition of 1752.
12.3 Cosmic Physics Observatory, San Miguel.