| Series |
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture
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| 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. |
| Abstract |
"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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-292). |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014019783 |
| ISBN | 9780292759305 (hardback) |
