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Title

The Casa del Deán : new world imagery in a sixteenth-century Mexican mural cycle / Penny C. Morrill ; photography by Juan Carlos Varillas Contreras.

Author

Morrill, Penny C.

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014.

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Description

XIII, 297 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

Uniform Title

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.

Subject

• Casa del Deán (Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico)
• 1500 - 1599
• Mural painting and decoration, Mexican > Puebla de Zaragoza > 16th century > Themes, motives
• Mural painting and decoration, Colonial > Puebla de Zaragoza > Themes, motives
• ART > Caribbean & Latin American
• Mural painting and decoration, Colonial > Themes, motives
• Mural painting and decoration, Mexican > Themes, motives
• Mexico > Puebla de Zaragoza

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Illustrations -- 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.

ISBN

• 9780292759305
• 0292759304

LCCN

^^2014019783

OCLC

• 881146292
• SCSB-10087826

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library