Dominican Architecture in Sixteenth Century Oaxaca
Author | : Robert James Mullen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : Robert James Mullen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : Robert J. Mullen |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2010-07-05 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0292788053 |
From monumental cathedrals to simple parish churches, perhaps as many as 100,000 churches and civic buildings were constructed in Mexico during the viceregal or colonial period (1535-1821). Many of these structures remain today as witnesses to the fruitful blending of Old and New World forms and styles that created an architecture of enduring vitality. In this profusely illustrated book, Robert J. Mullen provides a much-needed overview of Mexican colonial architecture and its attendant sculpture. Writing with just the right level of detail for students and general readers, he places the architecture in its social and economic context. He shows how buildings in the larger cities remained closer to European designs, while buildings in the pueblos often included prehispanic indigenous elements. This book grew out of the author's twenty-five-year exploration of Mexico's architectural and sculptural heritage. Combining an enthusiast's love for the subject with a scholar's care for accuracy, it is the perfect introduction to the full range of Mexico's colonial architecture.
Author | : Eleanor Friend Sleight |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Fernando Esparragoza Amador |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 830 |
Release | : 2017-06-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1443896063 |
The Spanish conquest of central Mexico in 1521 set in motion an evangelization campaign to convert the large indigenous populations to Catholicism. Franciscans, Dominicans, and Augustinians participated in the first stages of this campaign. The missionaries established doctrinas (missions) in many indigenous communities, and, during the sixteenth century, directed the construction of new sacred complexes, often on the site of pre-Hispanic temples. Many of the convent complexes still survive in various states of conservation. This Visual Catalog offers historical data regarding the convent complexes, as well as an extensive collection of photographs of the surviving buildings, murals, and design elements, and documents the Franciscan doctrinas. In the 1580s, Fray Antonio de Ciudad Real, O.F.M. accompanied the Comisario General Fray Alonso Ponce, O.F.M. on an inspection of the Franciscan installations in central Mexico and Central America. The book reproduces his descriptions of the Franciscan missions, and is accompanied by photographs of the convent complexes. It also documents the Dominican and Augustinian doctrinas, and discusses selected Jesuit colegios and missions in Mexico. The Jesuits first arrived in Mexico in 1572, and did not participate in the first evangelization campaign. They were active in urban missions and education, and also established missions on the far northern frontier of Mexico.
Author | : Robert James Mullen |
Publisher | : Arizona State University, Center for Latin American Studies |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
This regional study provides several firsts: documented founding dates of religious & civil buildings based on several archival sources; the identification of a sixteenth-century architect; & proof that many pueblo churches bear Mesoamerican symbols of the sacred, heretofore recognized only by the indigenous population. Employing an erudite yet lively literary style, Mullen portrays these structures as conveyors of ancient sacred values that remain vital in this era. Order from Arizona State University-Center for Latin American Studies, Box 872401, Tempe, AZ 85287-2401; 602-965- 5127.
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Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Church architecture |
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Author | : David T. Orique |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2024-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1040103669 |
The Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines (c. 1500–c. 1820) is part of a renewal of interest in the global history of the Dominican Order. Many of the essays were carefully selected among some of the papers presented at the III International Conference on the History of the Order of Preachers in the Americas, a gathering that stands in continuity with the conferences of Mexico (2013) and Bogotá (2016). This book, the contributors of which are active researchers specializing in the history of the Order of Preachers in Latin America, is organized in four parts: Women and the Order of Preachers; “Benditos Bienes”: Libraries and Material Patrimony; Missions, Devotional, and Daily Life; and The Order of Preachers and Their Writings. Contributions deal with different subfields including art history, gender studies, history of the book, and intellectual history more broadly. Additionally, it contains a chapter examining the historiography of the Order of Preachers in Latin America. Covering the time range from 1510 to the early nineteenth century, the book fills a gap in the historiography of the Order of Preachers in the Americas, especially in English-language scholarly literature. Students of Latin American history, the history of Christianity, and the history of global Catholicism will surely find the volume to be of great interest.
Author | : Robert H. Jackson |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2014-10-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1443870412 |
French historian Robert Ricard postulated a quick and facile evangelization of the native populations of central Mexico. However, evidence shows that native peoples incorporated Catholicism into their religious beliefs on their own terms, and continued to make sacrifices to their traditional deities. In particular the deities of rain (Tlaloc and Dzahui) and the fertility of the soil (Xipe Totec) continued to be important following the conquest and the beginning of the so-called spiritual conquest. This study examines visual evidence of the persistence of traditional religious practices, including embedded pre-hispanic stones placed in churches and convents, and pre-hispanic iconography in what ostensibly were Christian murals.
Author | : Kevin Terraciano |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2004-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804751049 |
A history of the Mixtec Indians of southern Mexico, this book focuses on several dozen Mixtec communities in the region of Oaxaca during the period from about 1540 to 1750.
Author | : Eleanor Wake |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2012-11-08 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0806186607 |
Christian churches erected in Mexico during the early colonial era represented the triumph of European conquest and religious domination. Or did they? Building on recent research that questions the “cultural” conquest of Mesoamerica, Eleanor Wake shows that colonial Mexican churches also reflected the beliefs of the indigenous communities that built them. European authorities failed to recognize that the meaning of the edifices they so admired was being challenged: pre-Columbian iconography integrated into Christian imagery, altars oriented toward indigenous sacred landmarks, and carefully recycled masonry. In Framing the Sacred, Wake examines how the art and architecture of Mexico’s religious structures reveals the indigenous people’s own decisions regarding the conversion program and their accommodation of the Christian message. As Wake shows, native peoples selected aspects of the invading culture to secure their own culture’s survival. In focusing on anomalies present in indigenous art and their relationship to orthodox Christian iconography, she draws on a wide geographical sampling across various forms of Indian artistic expression, including religious sculpture and painting, innovative architectural detail, cartography, and devotional poetry. She also offers a detailed analysis of documented native ritual practices that—she argues—assist in the interpretation of the imagery. With more than 200 illustrations, including 24 in color, Framing the Sacred is the most extensive study to date of the indigenous aspects of these churches and fosters a more complete understanding of Christianity’s influence on Mexican peoples.