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OverviewArvey Foundation Book Award, Association for Latin American Art, 2019 Quito, Ecuador, was one of colonial South America's most important artistic centers. Yet the literature on painting in colonial Quito largely ignores the first century of activity, reducing it to a ""handful of names,"" writes Susan Verdi Webster. In this major new work based on extensive and largely unpublished archival documentation, Webster identifies and traces the lives of more than fifty painters who plied their trade in the city between 1550 and 1650, revealing their mastery of languages and literacies and the circumstances in which they worked in early colonial Quito. Overturning many traditional assumptions about early Quiteno artists, Webster establishes that these artists-most of whom were Andean-functioned as visual intermediaries and multifaceted cultural translators who harnessed a wealth of specialized knowledge to shape graphic, pictorial worlds for colonial audiences. Operating in an urban mediascape of layered languages and empires-a colonial Spanish realm of alphabetic script and mimetic imagery and a colonial Andean world of discursive graphic, material, and chromatic forms-Quiteno painters dominated both the pen and the brush. Webster demonstrates that the Quiteno artists enjoyed fluency in several areas, ranging from alphabetic literacy and sophisticated scribal conventions to specialized knowledge of pictorial languages: the materials, technologies, and chemistry of painting, in addition to perspective, proportion, and iconography. This mastery enabled artists to deploy languages and literacies-alphabetic, pictorial, graphic, chromatic, and material-to obtain power and status in early colonial Quito. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Susan Verdi WebsterPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.993kg ISBN: 9781477313282ISBN 10: 1477313281 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 10 October 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. Contexts Chapter 1. Lettered Painters and the Languages of Empire Chapter 2. Materials, Models, and the Market Chapter 3. The Objects of Painting Chapter 4. Painters and the Profession Part II. Painters Chapter 5. First Generations, ca. 1550-1615 Chapter 6. Pintar la figura de la letra: Andres Sanchez Gallque and the Languages of Empire Chapter 7. Later Generations, 1615-1650 Chapter 8. Mateo Mexia and the Languages of Style Final Considerations Appendix. Selected Transcriptions of Painting Contracts A. Melchor de Alarcon, Choir Books, 1572 B. Diego de Robles and Luis de Ribera, Virgin of the Rosary, 1586 C. Andres Sanchez Gallque, Chimbo Altarpiece, 1592 D. Lucas Vizuete, Easel Paintings, 1626 E. Miguel Ponce, Altarpiece and Paintings, 1633 Glossary Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsBased on extensive archival research, [Webster's] study brings to light a veritable trove of new documents, in so doing radically altering understanding of the art profession in colonial Quito. . . . She challenges many assumptions about colonial Ecuadorian artists and makes a compelling argument for the vital role they played as cultural intermediaries who were masters of both the literary pen and the painterly brush. . . . Webster's prose is compelling and elegant. * CHOICE * [A] significant new study of painters in early colonial Quito...Verdi Webster does the important work of recognizing quiteno artists, many of whose names are unfamiliar, as learned makers, entrepreneurs, and landowners. * Sixteenth Century Journal * An extremely important contribution to viceregal scholarship...[Webster's] meticulous study...importantly demonstrates the integraton of artists, materials, and languages that flourished from the very beginning of Quito's colonial existence. * Renaissance Quarterly * Lettered Artists and the Languages of Empire will richly challenge students' established points of reference, in which task it is helped by its lucid language and clear organization...promises to be a premier English-language resource, and likely the most thoroughly researched one, on the art of colonial Quito for years to come. * Hispanic American Historical Review * Based on extensive archival research, [Webster's] study brings to light a veritable trove of new documents, in so doing radically altering understanding of the art profession in colonial Quito. . . . She challenges many assumptions about colonial Ecuadorian artists and makes a compelling argument for the vital role they played as cultural intermediaries who were masters of both the literary pen and the painterly brush. . . . Webster's prose is compelling and elegant. * CHOICE * Lettered Artists and the Languages of Empire will richly challenge students' established points of reference, in which task it is helped by its lucid language and clear organization...promises to be a premier English-language resource, and likely the most thoroughly researched one, on the art of colonial Quito for years to come. * Hispanic American Historical Review * Based on extensive archival research, [Webster's] study brings to light a veritable trove of new documents, in so doing radically altering understanding of the art profession in colonial Quito. . . . She challenges many assumptions about colonial Ecuadorian artists and makes a compelling argument for the vital role they played as cultural intermediaries who were masters of both the literary pen and the painterly brush. . . . Webster's prose is compelling and elegant. * CHOICE * Author InformationSusan Verdi Webster is the Jane Williams Mahoney Professor of Art History and American Studies at the College of William & Mary. She has published extensively in both English and Spanish on the history of painting, sculpture, architecture, and visual culture in Spain, Ecuador, and Mexico. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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