The Casa del Deán
Subtitle: New World imagery in a sixteenth-century Mexican mural cycle
By: Penny C. Morrill ; photography by Juan Carlos Varillas Contreras
Edition: First edition.
Series: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780292759305
Subjects: Mexican Mural painting and decoration; Themes, motives; Colonial Mural painting and decoration; ART / Caribbean & Latin American; Casa del Deán (Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico)
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-292).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Illustrations; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Chapter 1. Don Tomás de la Plaza; title: Introduction; title: Parish Priest; title: Cathedral Dean; title: Don Tomás and His Family; title: Don Tomás's Library and His Collections; title: Conclusion; title: Chapter 2. An Urban Palace; title: Introduction; title: Purism and the Casa del Deán; title: The Façade; title: The Residence's Plan; title: The Designer and Builder of the Casa del Deán; title: Conclusion; title: Chapter 3. The Artist as Tlapalli: Art as Rhetoric; title: Introduction; title: Tlapalli: The Deified Heart; title: Form as Metaphor in Early Colonial Painting; title: Rhetoric and Image; title: Education of the Amerindian Artists; title: A Franciscan School in the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region; title: Master of the Sibyls; title: Conclusion; title: Chapter 4. Dic Tu Sibila: The Salon of the Sibyls; title: Introduction; title: The Sibyls; title: Tracing the Sibylline Oracles; title: The Sibyls in Procession: Liturgical Drama; title: The Sibyls in the Casa del Deán Murals; title: Visual Sources for the Sibyls; title: Conclusion; title: Chapter 5. The Salon of the Triumphs; title: Introduction; title: Petrarch's Triumphs and Spectacle Literacy; title: The Impact on the Arts; title: The Triumphal Scenes; title: Conclusion; title: Chapter 6. The Wild Man in the Salon of the Triumphs; title: Introduction; title: Antecedents of the Satyr and Wild Man; title: The Wild Man in New Spain; title: Conclusion; title: Chapter 7. Amerindian Iconography: The Dream of a Word; title: Introduction; title: The Artist's Antecedents; title: The Animals in the Salon of the Triumphs; title: Conclusion; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix I. Don Tomás de la Plaza's Last Will and Testament: El Testamento de Don Tomás de la Plaza; title: Appendix II. Sibylline Oracles and Attributes; title: Appendix III. Documenting Don Tomás de la Plaza's Capellanía; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.