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

Edition First edition Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (XIII, 297 pages) : color illustrations Series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture. Contents 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 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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Casa del Deán (Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico) SUBJECT Casa del Deán (Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico) cct Casa del Deán (Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico) fast Subject Mural painting and decoration, Mexican -- Mexico -- Puebla de Zaragoza -- 16th century -- Themes, motives Mural painting and decoration, Colonial -- Mexico -- Puebla de Zaragoza -- Themes, motives ART -- Caribbean & Latin American. ART / General Mural painting and decoration, Colonial -- Themes, motives. -- Mexico. Mural painting and decoration, Mexican -- Themes, motives. -- Mexico -- 16th century. Muralisme -- Thèmes, motifs. -- Mexique. Peinture et décoration murales coloniales -- Thèmes, motifs. -- Mexique. Mural painting and decoration, Colonial -- Themes, motives Mural painting and decoration, Mexican -- Themes, motives Mexico -- Puebla de Zaragoza. Mexico -- Puebla de Zaragoza Form Electronic book ISBN 9781477329344 147732934X

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