Saints & santos : picturing the holy in New Spain /
"Explore how sacred art evolved in early Mexico, adapting to local cultures and artistic traditions.This beautifully illustrated book reveals the importance of saints in New Spain, a viceroyalty that was part of the Spanish Empire from 1521-1821, covering modern-day Mexico, Central America, and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY : Santa Fe, NM :
Scala Arts Publishers ; New Mexico Museum of Art,
2024.
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| Summary: | "Explore how sacred art evolved in early Mexico, adapting to local cultures and artistic traditions.This beautifully illustrated book reveals the importance of saints in New Spain, a viceroyalty that was part of the Spanish Empire from 1521-1821, covering modern-day Mexico, Central America, and the US Southwest. In the late sixteenth century, Rome's attempts to manage sanctity as an official process had a profound impact throughout Spain and the Spanish viceroyalties. Saintly devotions traveled to Mexico, and circulated within the vast territory as images or print, then to be transformed by New Spain's own communities. Drawing on collections from Mexico and the United States, this book examines the role of images in the construction of the holy: these paintings, sculptures, and engravings routinely used to propagate, celebrate, and venerate saintly figures, and used in official beatification and canonization proceedings. The relationship between sanctity and the pictorial is a long, revered tradition that continues in the work of New Mexico's santero artists today."--Publisher. |
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| Item Description: | Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 20, 2024 - January 12, 2025. |
| Physical Description: | 207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 x 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207). |
| ISBN: | 9781785516085 1785516086 |