"This work is of exceptional importance as it rescues from oblivion a stellar example of the world's vanishing cultural heritage. A model of scholarly research, it places the Jesuit church of St. Paul in Macao in its rightful position of pre-eminence. The

"C�sar Guill�n Nu�ez has written a very interesting and much-needed book. For non-specialists, this is a fascinating glimpse into Jesuit operations in Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and it will be very welcome also to specialists in arch

C�sar Guill�n Nu�ez is currently Research Fellow and Art Historian at the Macao Ricci Institute. He is a specialist in colonial Spanish and Portuguese art history and has studied at, among other institutions, the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Formerly curator of art exhibitions in Hong Kong and Macao, he has written extensively on his specialty, as well as on nineteenth-century China trade and contemporary Hong Kong and Macao art.