Maya Christian Murals of Early Modern Yucatán

by Amara Solari and Linda K. Williams

The first study of Christian murals created by indigenous artists in sixteenth and seventeenth century Yucat n.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Maya artists painted murals in churches and conventos of Yucat n using traditional techniques to depict iconography brought from Europe by Franciscan friars. The fragmentary visual remains and their placement within religious structures embed Maya conceptions of sacredness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477329684
• ISBN13: 9781477329689
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.