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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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative, Mellon Foundation
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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