Architecture And Its Sculpture In Viceregal Mexico

Author : Robert J. Mullen
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780292788053

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Architecture and Its Sculpture in Viceregal Mexico by Robert J. Mullen Pdf

From monumental cathedrals to simple parish churches, perhaps as many as 100,000 churches and civic buildings were constructed in Mexico during the viceregal or colonial period (1535-1821). Many of these structures remain today as witnesses to the fruitful blending of Old and New World forms and styles that created an architecture of enduring vitality. In this profusely illustrated book, Robert J. Mullen provides a much-needed overview of Mexican colonial architecture and its attendant sculpture. Writing with just the right level of detail for students and general readers, he places the architecture in its social and economic context. He shows how buildings in the larger cities remained closer to European designs, while buildings in the pueblos often included prehispanic indigenous elements. This book grew out of the author's twenty-five-year exploration of Mexico's architectural and sculptural heritage. Combining an enthusiast's love for the subject with a scholar's care for accuracy, it is the perfect introduction to the full range of Mexico's colonial architecture.

Author : Kelly Donahue-Wallace
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780826334596

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Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821 by Kelly Donahue-Wallace Pdf

A chronological overview of important art, sculpture, and architectural monuments of colonial Latin America within the economic and religious contexts of the era.

Author : Juan Luis Burke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000383546

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Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico by Juan Luis Burke Pdf

Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico presents a fascinating survey of urban history between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. It chronicles the creation and development of Puebla de los Ángeles, a city located in central-south Mexico, during its viceregal period. Founded in 1531, the city was established as a Spanish settlement surrounded by important Indigenous towns. This situation prompted a colonial city that developed along Spanish colonial guidelines but became influenced by the native communities that settled in it, creating one of the most architecturally rich cities in colonial Spanish America, from the Renaissance to the Baroque periods. This book covers the city's historical background, investigating its civic and religious institutions as represented in selected architectural landmarks. Throughout the narrative, Burke weaves together sociological, anthropological, and historical analysis to discuss the city’s architectural and urban development. Written for academics, students, and researchers interested in architectural history, Latin American studies, and the Spanish American viceregal period, it will make an important contribution to the field.

Author : Elizabeth Wilder Weismann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art, Colonial
ISBN : 006438506X

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Art and Time in Mexico by Elizabeth Wilder Weismann Pdf

Author : Walter Harrington Kilham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015006809977

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Mexican Architecture of the Vice-regal Period by Walter Harrington Kilham Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Wilder Weismann
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173002178290

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Art and Time in Mexico by Elizabeth Wilder Weismann Pdf

Shows a variety of convents, churches, cathedrals, plazas, palaces, houses, bridges, hospitals, and public buildings constructed during the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004302150

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Envisioning Others: Race, Color, and the Visual in Iberia and Latin America by Anonim Pdf

Envisioning Others offers a multidisciplinary view of the relationship between race and visual culture in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world, from the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal to colonial Peru and Colombia, post-Independence Mexico, and the pre-Emancipation United States.

Author : Beverley Spears
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780826358189

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Early Churches of Mexico by Beverley Spears Pdf

Following the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the early 1500s, Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian friars fanned out across the central and southern areas of the country, founding hundreds of mission churches and monasteries to evangelize the Native population. This book documents more than 120 of these remarkable sixteenth-century sites in duotone black-and-white photographs. Virtually unknown outside Mexico, these complexes unite architecture, landscape, mural painting, and sculpture on a grand scale, in some ways rivaling the archaeological sites of the Maya and Aztecs. They represent a fascinating period in history when two distinct cultures began interweaving to form the fabric of modern Mexico. Many were founded on the sites of ancient temples and reused their masonry, and they were ornamented with architectural murals and sculptures that owe much to the existing Native tradition—almost all the construction was done by indigenous artisans. With these photos, Spears celebrates this unique architectural and cultural heritage to help ensure its protection and survival.

Author : Kellen Kee MacIntyre,Richard E. Phillips
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004153929

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Woman And Art in Early Modern Latin America by Kellen Kee MacIntyre,Richard E. Phillips Pdf

This illustrated anthology brings together for the first time a collection of essays that explore the position of women and the contributions made by them to the arts and architecture of early modern Latin America.

Author : C. Cody Barteet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429999048

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Architectural Rhetoric and the Iconography of Authority in Colonial Mexico by C. Cody Barteet Pdf

This book investigates the Casa de Montejo and considers the role of the building’s Plateresque façade as a form of visual rhetoric that conveyed ideas about the individual and communal cultural identities in sixteenth-century Yucatán. C. Cody Barteet analyzes the façade within the complex colonial world in which it belongs, including in multicultural Yucatán and the transatlantic world. This contextualization allows for an examination of the architectural rhetoric of the façade, the design of which visualizes the contestations of autonomy and authority occurring among the colonial peoples.

Author : Samuel Y. Edgerton
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0826322565

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Theaters of Conversion by Samuel Y. Edgerton Pdf

Mexico's churches and conventos display a unique blend of European and native styles. Missionary Mendicant friars arrived in New Spain shortly after Cortes's conquest of the Aztec empire in 1521 and immediately related their own European architectural and visual arts styles to the tastes and expectations of native Indians. Right from the beginning the friars conceived of conventos as a special architectural theater in which to carry out their proselytizing. Over four hundred conventos were established in Mexico between 1526 and 1600, and more still in New Mexico in the century following, all built and decorated by native Indian artisans who became masters of European techniques and styles even as they added their own influence. The author argues that these magnificent sixteenth and seventeenth-century structures are as much part of the artistic patrimony of American Indians as their pre-Conquest temples, pyramids, and kivas. Mexican Indians, in fact, adapted European motifs to their own pictorial traditions and thus made a unique contribution to the worldwide spread of the Italian Renaissance. The author brings a wealth of knowledge of medieval and Renaissance European history, philosophy, theology, art, and architecture to bear on colonial Mexico at the same time as he focuses on indigenous contributions to the colonial enterprise. This ground-breaking study enriches our understanding of the colonial process and the reciprocal relationship between European friars and native artisans.

Author : William H. Beezley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444340587

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A Companion to Mexican History and Culture by William H. Beezley Pdf

A Companion to Mexican History and Culture features 40 essays contributed by international scholars that incorporate ethnic, gender, environmental, and cultural studies to reveal a richer portrait of the Mexican experience, from the earliest peoples to the present. Features the latest scholarship on Mexican history and culture by an array of international scholars Essays are separated into sections on the four major chronological eras Discusses recent historical interpretations with critical historiographical sources, and is enriched by cultural analysis, ethnic and gender studies, and visual evidence The first volume to incorporate a discussion of popular music in political analysis This book is the receipient of the 2013 Michael C. Meyer Special Recognition Award from the Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies.

Author : Celina B. Barrios de Senisterra
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527540279

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Mesoamerican Open Spaces and Mural Paintings as Statements of Cultural Identity by Celina B. Barrios de Senisterra Pdf

The sensitive perception of a society’s artistic expressions facilitates our comprehension of its ethos, enabling the meaningful communication between individuals and communities, which is the fundamental link that connects human beings. This book explores the spirit of the Mesoamerican civilization from pre-history until the 20th century, interpreting its architectural legacy, both in the planned environments of the public plazas, and in the art that is integrated into structural designs, exemplified by the Mexican mural paintings. The first part studies the open areas defined by substantially symbolic architecture, providing the spatial forum for the spiritual and consequential collective manifestations of the native population throughout the history of Mesoamerica, linking past, present, and future generations. The second part focuses on mural painting, which has been a consistent universal medium for eloquent cultural interaction among Mesoamericans.

Author : David T. Orique,Rady Roldán-Figueroa,Cynthia Folquer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040103661

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The Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines (c. 1500–c. 1820) by David T. Orique,Rady Roldán-Figueroa,Cynthia Folquer Pdf

The Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines (c. 1500–c. 1820) is part of a renewal of interest in the global history of the Dominican Order. Many of the essays were carefully selected among some of the papers presented at the III International Conference on the History of the Order of Preachers in the Americas, a gathering that stands in continuity with the conferences of Mexico (2013) and Bogotá (2016). This book, the contributors of which are active researchers specializing in the history of the Order of Preachers in Latin America, is organized in four parts: Women and the Order of Preachers; “Benditos Bienes”: Libraries and Material Patrimony; Missions, Devotional, and Daily Life; and The Order of Preachers and Their Writings. Contributions deal with different subfields including art history, gender studies, history of the book, and intellectual history more broadly. Additionally, it contains a chapter examining the historiography of the Order of Preachers in Latin America. Covering the time range from 1510 to the early nineteenth century, the book fills a gap in the historiography of the Order of Preachers in the Americas, especially in English-language scholarly literature. Students of Latin American history, the history of Christianity, and the history of global Catholicism will surely find the volume to be of great interest.

Author : J.M. Mancini
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780520294516

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Art and War in the Pacific World by J.M. Mancini Pdf

"Recent years have witnessed a surge in interest the Pacific world as a hub for the global trade in art objects. Yet, the history of art and architecture has seldom reckoned with another profound aspect of the region's history: its exposure to global conflict. Art and War in the Pacific World provides a new view of the Pacific world, and of global artistic interaction, by exploring how the making, alteration, looting, and destruction of images, objects, buildings, and landscapes intersected with the exercise of force during the British and U.S. military incursions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.