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Colonial Mexico's art, architecture, churches, religious customs and history
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Re-envisioning the Spanish Conquest
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Contemporary Mixe Indians My tour guide in Oaxaca gave me a piece of information that altered my understanding of the Spanish Conquest....
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Oaxacan Baroque: Environment and Architecture
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I just returned from Oaxaca, Mexico which is about five hours southeast of Mexico City. Everything about this diverse region- churches, cus...
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Mestizo Baroque: the Mexican Church's Magnet
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It was the Baroque style that initially drew me to the art and architecture of the Colonial Latin American World. I loved the elaborate pa...
Monday, April 1, 2013
Deciphering Mexico's Marys
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Oratorio of St. Felipe Neri, San Miguel d'Allende, MX When considering the images of Mary in Mexico, the first question ...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Jesus of Mexican Holy Week
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NOT MEXICAN JESUS The middle-American Protestant Jesus is a generic image- a nice, kind man perhaps surrounded by children or ho...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Mexican Christs: Cristos de Caña
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Cathedral, Merida, Yucatan Christ carried in Good Friday procession, Merida, Yucatan (Mary is visible behind) In my last post, ...
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Converting Christianity: the Catholic-Indigenous "Dialogue"
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Crucified Christ, San Bernardino de Siena, Xochimilco, MX As strange as it may seem, the indigenous peoples' major difficulty was n...
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