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"Extensively illustrated with new color photographs, this pioneering study of a masterpiece of colonial Latin American art reveals how a cathedral dean and native American painters drew on their respective visual traditions to promote Christian faith in the New World"--
List of contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Don Tomás de la Plaza
- Introduction
- Parish Priest
- Cathedral Dean
- Don Tomás and His Family
- Don Tomás's Library and His Collections
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2. An Urban Palace
- Introduction
- Purism and the Casa del Deán
- The Façade
- The Residence’s Plan
- The Designer and Builder of the Casa del Deán
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3. The Artist as Tlapalli: Art as Rhetoric
- Introduction
- Tlapalli: The Deified Heart
- Form as Metaphor in Early Colonial Painting
- Rhetoric and Image
- Education of the Amerindian Artists
- A Franciscan School in the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region
- Master of the Sibyls
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Dic Tu Sibila: The Salon of the Sibyls
- Introduction
- The Sibyls
- Tracing the Sibylline Oracles
- The Sibyls in Procession: Liturgical Drama
- The Sibyls in the Casa del Deán Murals
- Visual Sources for the Sibyls
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5. The Salon of the Triumphs
- Introduction
- Petrarch’s Triumphs and Spectacle Literacy
- The Impact on the Arts
- The Triumphal Scenes
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6. The Wild Man in the Salon of the Triumphs
- Introduction
- Antecedents of the Satyr and Wild Man
- The Wild Man in New Spain
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7. Amerindian Iconography: The Dream of a Word
- Introduction
- The Artist’s Antecedents
- The Animals in the Salon of the Triumphs
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Appendix I. Don Tomás de la Plaza’s Last Will and Testament: El Testamento de Don Tomás de la Plaza
- Appendix II. Sibylline Oracles and Attributes
- Appendix III. Documenting Don Tomás de la Plaza’s Capellanía
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
