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Language: en
Pages: 289
Pages: 289
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-06 - Publisher: University of Texas Press
"Offering a pioneering interpretation of the "crowned nun" portrait, this book explores how visual culture contributed to local identity formation in Mexico"--
Language: en
Pages: 289
Pages: 289
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-01 - Publisher: University of Texas Press
In the eighteenth century, New Spaniards (colonial Mexicans) so lauded their nuns that they developed a local tradition of visually opulent portraits, called mo
Language: en
Pages: 733
Pages: 733
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-01 - Publisher: Trinity University Press
Three hundred years ago San Antonio was founded as a strategic outpost of presidios and missions on the edge of northern New Spain, imposing Spanish political a
Language: en
Pages: 313
Pages: 313
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-21 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
While the connected, international character of today's art world is well known, the eighteenth century too had a global art world. Eighteenth-Century Art World
Language: en
Pages: 193
Pages: 193
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-30 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
A wealth of background and analytical material makes Sor Juana's proto-feminist writings, newly translated, all the more compelling. 2014 PEN USA Literary Award