The Art of Professing in Bourbon Mexico : : Crowned-Nun Portraits and Reform in the Convent / / James M. Córdova.
In 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. T...
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Córdova, James M., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Art of Professing in Bourbon Mexico : Crowned-Nun Portraits and Reform in the Convent / James M. Córdova. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2014 1 online resource (288 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative, Mellon Foundation Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Women’s Religious Pathways in New Spain -- Chapter 2 New Spanish Portraiture and Portraits of Nuns -- Chapter 3 Euro-Christian Precedents in the Crowned-Nun Image -- Chapter 4 Indigenous Contributions to Convent Arts and Culture -- Chapter 5 The Profession Portrait in a Time of Crisis -- Chapter 6 Colonial Identity Rhetorics -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In 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 as markers of a vibrant and changing society that fused together indigenous and Euro-Christian traditions and ritual practices to construct a new and complex religious identity that was unique to New Spain. To discover why crowned-nun portraits, and especially the profession portrait, were in such demand in New Spain, this book offers a pioneering interpretation of these works as significant visual contributions to a local counter-colonial discourse. James M. Córdova demonstrates that the portraits were a response to the Spanish crown’s project to modify and modernize colonial society—a series of reforms instituted by the Bourbon monarchs that threatened many nuns’ religious identities in New Spain. His analysis of the portraits’ rhetorical devices, which visually combined Euro-Christian and Mesoamerican notions of the sacred, shows how they promoted local religious and cultural values as well as client-patron relations, all of which were under scrutiny by the colonial Church. Combining visual evidence from images of the “crowned nun” with a discussion of the nuns’ actual roles in society, Córdova reveals that nuns found their greatest agency as Christ’s brides, a title through which they could, and did, challenge the Church’s authority when they found it intolerable. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) Art and society Mexico History 18th century. Crowned-nun portraits. National characteristics, Mexican, in art. Portrait painting, Mexican 18th century. ART / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110745337 https://doi.org/10.7560/753150 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292753167 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292753167/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Women’s Religious Pathways in New Spain -- Chapter 2 New Spanish Portraiture and Portraits of Nuns -- Chapter 3 Euro-Christian Precedents in the Crowned-Nun Image -- Chapter 4 Indigenous Contributions to Convent Arts and Culture -- Chapter 5 The Profession Portrait in a Time of Crisis -- Chapter 6 Colonial Identity Rhetorics -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
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