El Antiguo Testamento & el arte novohispano
Subtitle: ha-Berit ha-Yeshanah be-omanut shel Sefared ha-ḥadashah
By: Carmen Gaitán Rojo, coordinación general
Contributors: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (Mexico); Museo de San Carlos
Edition: Primera edición.
Series: Museos y galerías; Museos y galerías
Publisher: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo Nacional de San Carlos
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Ciudad de México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9786076055779
Subjects: Exhibitions; History of Biblical events; Art; In art; Christian art and symbolism; Art and religion; Modern period; Bible
Other titles: Berit ha-Yeshanah be-omanut shel Sefared ha-ḥadashah; Antiguo Testamento y el arte novohispano
Description: Catalog of the exhibition of 50 works made in Mexico during the 17th and 18th centuries, some by painters as prominent as Juan Correa, Miguel González, José de Páez or Antonio de Torres, a piece of the Peruvian viceroyalty, one made in the distant Orient and three European pieces of the permanent collection of the National Museum of San Carlos that reconstruct the histories and characters of the Old Testament and that reflect the Christian reading that the Catholic Church made of the Hebrew Bible  in colonial times.
Notes: At head of title: Museo Nacional de San Carlos.

Title also in Hebrew.

Catalog of an exhibition held at Museo de San Carlos.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247).
Table of contents: title: Presentación / Maria Cristina García Cepeda; title: Prólogo / Dra. Lidia Camacho Camacho; title: El Antiguo Testamento y el arte novohispano / Carmen Gaitán Rojo; title: La Biblia y su importancia cultural / Marcela Corvera Poiré; title: Los mecanismos de la inventiva del arte colonial / Almerindo Ojeda Di Ninno; title: Catálogo de obra.