The Casa del Deán : : New World Imagery in a Sixteenth-Century Mexican Mural Cycle / / Penny C. Morrill.

• VerfasserIn: Morrill, Penny C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2023]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (311 p.) :; 124 color photos

The Casa del Deán in Puebla, Mexico, is one of few surviving sixteenth-century residences in the Americas. Built in 1580 by Tomás de la Plaza, the Dean of the Cathedral, the house was decorated with at least three magnificent murals, two of which survive. Their rediscovery in the 1950s and restorati...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Don Tomás de la Plaza
• Chapter 2. An Urban Palace
• Chapter 3. The Artist as Tlapalli: Art as Rhetoric
• Chapter 4. Dic Tu Sibila: The Salon of the Sibyls
• Chapter 5. The Salon of the Triumphs
• Chapter 6. The Wild Man in the Salon of the Triumphs
• Chapter 7. Amerindian Iconography: The Dream of a Word
• 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