Salazar : portraits of influence in Spanish New Orleans, 1785-1802 /

In conjunction with an exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 'Salazar: portraits of Influence in Spanish New Orleans, 1785-1802' tells the story of Yucatan-born Josef Xavier Francisco de Salazar y Mendoza (c. 1750-1802), whose career spanned most of the Spanish administration of...

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Other Authors: Gontar, Cybèle T. (Editor), Caro, Beatriz E. (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Spanish
Language Notes:Parallel text in English and Spanish.
Published: New Orleans : Ogden Museum of Southern Art/University of New Orleans Press, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface : Salazar, why now? : American art and the postcolonial South / by Cybèle Gontar
  • Introduction : a reflection on Louisiana in the Spanish Empire / by Thomas Fiehrer
  • Salazar's world : colonial Mérida, Yucatán / by Robert W. Patch
  • Salazar's world : a sketch of colonial New Orleans / by Gilbert C. Din
  • Salazar's world : Novohispano portraits : examples from the eighteenth and early nineteenth century in the collection of Museo Franz Mayer / by Mayela Flores Enríquez
  • The "celebrated self-taught portrait painter" : Josef Salazar y Mendoza of New Orleans / by Cybèle Gontar
  • En el nombre de Dios : a reading of documents pertaining to the Salazar succession in the Notarial Archives Division, Office of the Clerk, Parish of Orleans / by Sally K. Reeves
  • Nexus New Orleans : mobility and artistic exchange, 1780-1830 / by Katherine Manthorne.