ARTH640- Art and religion in the New World

Reading assignment for Oct. 19

Visions, Miracles, and Saints: Devotions for a New World

Required readings:

· Stoichita, Victor. “Image and apparition: Spanish painting of the Golden Age and New World popular devotion,” Res 1994, no. 26, autumn, p. 32-46.

· Peterson, Jeanette Favrot. “Creating the Virgin of Guadalupe: the Cloth, the Artist, and Sources in Sixteenth-Century New Spain” The Americas vol. 61, No. 4 (2005), pp. 571-610

[URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_americas/v061/61.4peterson.html]

· MacCormack, Sabine. “From the Sun of the Incas to the Virgin of Copacabana” Representations, No. 8. (Autumn, 1984), pp. 30-60. [URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0734-6018%28198423%290%3A8%3C30%3AFTSOTI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R

· Rubial García, Antonio. “St. Palafox: Metaphorical images of disputed sainthood” in: Greer, Allan, and Jodi Bilinkoff, ed. Colonial saints: discovering the holy in the Americas, 1500-1800: Routledge, 2003, pp. 193-207. Morris BX4659. A45 C65 2003

· Omari-Tunkara, Mikelle Smith. “Contest of Cultures. Imagery and rituals for twins in Bahia” in: Manipulating the sacred: Yoruba art, ritual, and resistance in Brazilian Candomble: Wayne State University Press, 2005, pp. 111-123. Morris NK1678. C34 O48 2005

Recommended readings:

· Alcalá, Luisa Elena. “Imagen e historia. La representación del milagro en la pintura colonial” in: Los siglos de oro en los virreinatos de América: 1550-1700: Sociedad Estatal para la Conmemoración de los Centenarios de Felipe II y Carlos V, 1999, pp. 107-125. Morris N 6502.2 .S53 1999

· Curcio-Nagy, Linda A. “Native Icon to City Protectress to Royal Patroness: Ritual, Political Symbolism and the Virgin of Remedies” The Americas, Vol. 52, No. 3. (Jan., 1996), pp. 367-391. [URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-1615%28199601%2952%3A3%3C367%3ANITCPT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D]

· Dean, Carolyn. “The renewal of Old World images and the creation of Colonial Peruvian visual culture” in: Fane, Diana, ed. Converging cultures: art & identity in Spanish America: The Brooklyn Museum in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1996, pp. 171-182. Morris N6553 .C66 1996

· Stoichita, Victor. “Assemblage. How to make a new painting from an old image” The Self-Aware Image. An Insight into Early Modern Meta-Painting. Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 67-88.