Exploring New World Imagery: Spanish Colonial Papers from the 2002 Mayer Center Symposium

The Jan and Frederick Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum sponsors annual symposia in these two fields of art. This volume presents essays on Spanish colonial art from the 2002 symposium, which focused on objects in the collections at the museum. Color reproductions of many of these works illustrate the essays, which include: - "Christian Cross as Indigenous 'World Tree' in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: The 'Atrio' Cross in the Jan and Frederick Mayer Collection," by Samuel Y. Edgerton, Professor of Art History, Williams College- "The Reproducibility of the Sacred: Simulacra of the Virgin of Guadalupe," by Jeanette Favrot Peterson, Associate Professor of Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara- "Inka Nobles, Portraiture, and Paradox in Colonial Peru," by Carolyn Dean, Professor of Art History, University of California, Santa Cruz- "The Mexican Painter Crist?bal de Villalpando: His Life and Legacy," by Juana Guti?rrez Haces, Research Fellow and Art History Professor, Instituto de Investigaciones Est?ticas, Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico- "Miguel de Santiago (c. 1633-1706): The Creation of the Quito School and Its Re-creation in the Nineteenth Century" by Alexandra Kennedy-Troya, Professor of Art History, University of Cuenca

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0914738518
• ISBN13: 9780914738510
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Denver Art Museum
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.6" x 9.0"