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The Casa del Deán : new world imagery in a sixteenth-century Mexican mural cycle /

"Extensively illustrated with new color photographs, this pioneering study of a masterpiece of colonial Latin American art reveals how a cathedral dean and native American painters drew on their respective visual traditions to promote Christian faith in the New World"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morrill, Penny C. (Autor)
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Don Tomás de la Plaza: Introduction; Parish Priest; Cathedral Dean; Don Tomás and His Family; Don Tomás's Library and His Collections; Conclusion
  • Chapter 2. An Urban Palace: Introduction; Purism and the Casa del Deán; The Façade; The Residence's Plan; The Designer and Builder of the Casa del Deán; Conclusion
  • Chapter 3. The Artist as Tlapalli: Art as Rhetoric: Introduction; Tlapalli: The Deified Heart; Form as Metaphor in Early Colonial Painting; Rhetoric and Image; Education of the Amerindian Artists; A Franciscan School in the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region; Master of the Sibyls; Conclusion
  • Chapter 4. Dic Tu Sibila: The Salon of the Sibyls: Introduction; The Sibyls; Tracing the Sibylline Oracles; The Sibyls in Procession: Liturgical Drama; The Sibyls in the Casa del Deán Murals; Visual Sources for the Sibyls; Conclusion
  • Chapter 5. The Salon of the Triumphs: Introduction; Petrarch's Triumphs and Spectacle Literacy; The Impact on the Arts; The Triumphal Scenes; Conclusion
  • Chapter 6. The Wild Man in the Salon of the Triumphs: Introduction; Antecedents of the Satyr and Wild Man; The Wild Man in New Spain; Conclusion
  • Chapter 7. Amerindian Iconography: The Dream of a Word: Introduction; The Artist's Antecedents; The Animals in the Salon of the Triumphs; Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix I. Don Tomás de la Plaza's Last Will and Testament: El Testamento de Don Tomás de la Plaza
  • Appendix II. Sibylline Oracles and Attributes
  • Appendix III. Documenting Don Tomás de la Plaza's Capellanía.