Title: Cielo, infierno y purgatorio durante el virreinato de la Nueva España
Description: This work analyzes how New Spain conceived of and represented the afterlife beyond heaven, hell, purgatory and limbo, and how the living imagined the souls of the dead at these sites. Emphasis is placed on iconography and art, but the narrative ranges from the introduction of Christianity by the mendicant friars in the sixteenth century to the days before Independence in the late eighteenth century. This work explores how customs, attitudes and religious practices affected the social organization and economy of the kingdom.
Subjects: Death, Future life, Christian art and symbolism, Catholic Church, Future life in art, Religious life and customs, Religion, Hell in art, Heaven in art, Christianity, Purgatory in art, History, Religious aspects