ARTH232

The Art of the Conquest

 

 

Required readings

á      Bailey: 70-108, 208-260   

 

 

Important names & terms

á      Tequitqui art, Mestizo art, artistic syncretism

á      Amantecas, tlacuiloque

á      Open air churches: open chapel, posa chapels, atrium cross

 

 

Links to Images

á      Anonymous, The Miraculous Mass of St. Gregory, 1539. Feather painting from the School of San JosŽ de los Naturales, Mexico City.  

á      Juan Baptiste Cuiris, Virgin Mary, c. 1550/80. Feather painting from P‡tzcuaro, Michoac‡n (Mexico).

á      Anonymous, Amantecas (Featherworkers) at work, illustrations from the Florentine Codex, fol. 371v-375 r.

á      Pedro de Gante, Page of Testerian Catechism, 1525-8

á      Guam‡n Poma de Ayala, Nueva Cor—nica y Buen Gobierno, 1613-15:

o      Rich Imperial City of Potos’

o      Artisans

á      Anonymous, Kero, late 16th-17th century.

á      Anonymous, The Virgin Mary of the Cerro Rico of Potos’, 18th century.

á      Diego de ValadŽs, Ideal Franciscan mission in New Spain, engraving from Rhetorica Christiana, 1579

á      Plan, Franciscan Mission Church of Tepeapulco (Mexico), mid to late 16th century

á      Plan, Augustinian Mission Church of Copacabana (Bolivia), 1614-40

á      Posa chapel, Franciscan Mission Church of Calpan (Mexico), mid to late 16th century

á      Atrium cross, Franciscan Church of Tepeyac (Mexico), late 16th century

á      Juan Gerson, NoahÕs Ark, 1562. Detail of choir-loft paintings at the Franciscan mission church of Tecamachalco, Mexico

á      Anonymous, Battle of Indigenous Warriors, 1570s. Mural paintings of the Augustinian mission church of Ixmiquilpan, Mexico

á      Anonymous, The Garden of Paradise, mid-16th cent. Mural paintings of the Augustinian mission church of Malinalco, Mexico (detail)

á      Franciscan mission church of Acoma, New Mexico (USA), 1629-44