Art of professing in bourbon mexico, the: crowned-nun portraits and reform in the convent
Auteur :
Córdova, James M.
Éditeur :
University of Texas Press
ISBN :
9780292753150
Date de publication :
6 janv. 2014
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,8 cm
Poids :
626 g
Format :
With dust jacket
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
By the eighteenth century, New Spaniards (colonial Mexicans) so lauded their nuns that they developed a local tradition of visually opulent portraits, called monjas coronadas or "crowned nuns," that picture their subjects in regal trappings at the moment of their religious profession and in death. This study identifies these portraits.