Thursday, January 03, 2008

Field Museum's Chinese scroll of Madonna and Child shows Christianity's spread
After a restoration, the Field Museum's early Chinese painting of the Madonna and Child gets a second look

By Ron Grossman Tribune staff reporter
January 2, 2008

As a pair of conservators at the Field Museum slowly unrolled an ancient Chinese scroll, it dramatically revealed how far the Christian faith has traveled since that first Christmas in Bethlehem.

Though the delicate watercolor of a Madonna and Child is among oldest visual evidences of Christianity in the Far East, the museum had prosaically dubbed it "catalog number 116027."

For decades, it sat in a dimly lit case, cracked and soiled. The details were hard to discern."I only began to realize how important this thing is when we [recently] had it restored," said curator Bennet Bronson.
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