Title: Santa Rosa de Lima y su tiempo
Description: "A sumptuous work on Rose of Lima consists of three scholarly (not at all hagiographic) essays. The first, by Luis Eduardo Wuffarden and Pedro Guibovich Pérez, recreates ambience of late-16th- and early-17th-century Lima in exquisite detail; the second, by Ramón Mujica Pinilla, re-examines mysticism and the 'intellectual sources' of Isabel de Flores y Oliva (1586-1617) and the impact of her beliefs and spiritual practices; and the third, by José Flores Araoz, looks at the iconography of the saint. Lavishly illustrated. Includes previously unstudied art work such as series of oil paintings by heretofore unknown Laureano Dávila, a member of the Quito School, for the Monasterio de Santa Rosa in Santiago de Chile in 1700s. A splendid contribution to the religious, intellectual, and art history of the colonial period"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Subjects: Portraits, Christian saints, Church history, Santos cristianos, Retratos
Places: Lima (Peru), Lima, Peru
People: Rose of Lima, Saint (1586-1617)