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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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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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