An edition of The Casa del Deán
(2014)
The Casa del Deán
New World imagery in a sixteenth-century Mexican mural cycle
First edition.
by Penny C. Morrill
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"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"--
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Mexican Mural painting and decoration, Themes, motives, Colonial Mural painting and decoration, ART / Caribbean & Latin American, Casa del Deán (Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico), Mural painting and decoration, Art, mexican, Art, themes, motives, etc., ART, Caribbean & Latin AmericanPlaces
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The Casa del Deán: New World imagery in a sixteenth-century Mexican mural cycle
2014, University of Texas Press
in English
- First edition.
0292759304 9780292759305
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
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
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-292).
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