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OverviewThe Casa del Deán in Puebla, Mexico, is one of few surviving sixteenth-century residences in the Americas. Built in 1580 by Tomás de la Plaza, the Dean of the Cathedral, the house was decorated with at least three magnificent murals, two of which survive. Their rediscovery in the 1950s and restoration in 2010 revealed works of art that rival European masterpieces of the early Renaissance, while incorporating indigenous elements that identify them with Amerindian visual traditions. Extensively illustrated with new color photographs of the murals, The Casa del Deán presents a thorough iconographic analysis of the paintings and an enlightening discussion of the relationship between Tomás de la Plaza and the indigenous artists whom he commissioned. Penny Morrill skillfully traces how native painters, trained by the Franciscans, used images from Classical mythology found in Flemish and Italian prints and illustrated books from France—as well as animal images and glyphic traditions with pre-Columbian origins—to create murals that are reflective of Don Tomás’s erudition and his role in evangelizing among the Amerindians. She demonstrates how the importance given to rhetoric by both the Spaniards and the Nahuas became a bridge of communication between these two distinct and highly evolved cultures. This pioneering study of the Casa del Deán mural cycle adds an important new chapter to the study of colonial Latin American art, as it increases our understanding of the process by which imagery in the New World took on Christian meaning. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Penny C. MorrillPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 27.90cm Weight: 1.674kg ISBN: 9780292759305ISBN 10: 0292759304 Pages: 311 Publication Date: 01 December 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education 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 ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Don Tomas de la Plaza Introduction Parish Priest Cathedral Dean Don Tomas and His Family Don Tomas's Library and His Collections Conclusion Chapter 2. An Urban Palace Introduction Purism and the Casa del Dean The Facade The Residence's Plan The Designer and Builder of the Casa del Dean Conclusion Chapter 3. The Artist as Tlapalli: Art as Rhetoric Introduction Tlapalli: The Deified Heart Form as Metaphor in Early Colonial Painting Rhetoric and Image Education of the Amerindian Artists A Franciscan School in the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region Master of the Sibyls Conclusion Chapter 4. Dic Tu Sibila: The Salon of the Sibyls Introduction The Sibyls Tracing the Sibylline Oracles The Sibyls in Procession: Liturgical Drama The Sibyls in the Casa del Dean Murals Visual Sources for the Sibyls Conclusion Chapter 5. The Salon of the Triumphs Introduction Petrarch's Triumphs and Spectacle Literacy The Impact on the Arts The Triumphal Scenes Conclusion Chapter 6. The Wild Man in the Salon of the Triumphs Introduction Antecedents of the Satyr and Wild Man The Wild Man in New Spain Conclusion Chapter 7. Amerindian Iconography: The Dream of a Word Introduction The Artist's Antecedents The Animals in the Salon of the Triumphs Conclusion Conclusion Appendix I. Don Tomas de la Plaza's Last Will and Testament: El Testamento de Don Tomas de la Plaza Appendix II. Sibylline Oracles and Attributes Appendix III. Documenting Don Tomas de la Plaza's Capellania Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsPenny Morrill's wonderful book The Casa del De an is a clearly written, well-researched, and beautifully illustrated monograph that studies one of the few remaining private mural cycles of sixteenth-century Mexico. It is at once a depressing tale of the murals' partial destruction in the twentieth century due to local disregard for Mexico's patrimony as well as a gripping and surprising account of the history of their creation and significance. * Renaissance Quarterly * """Penny Morrill’s wonderful book The Casa del Dean is a clearly written, well-researched, and beautifully illustrated monograph that studies one of the few remaining private mural cycles of sixteenth-century Mexico. It is at once a depressing tale of the murals’ partial destruction in the twentieth century due to local disregard for Mexico’s patrimony as well as a gripping and surprising account of the history of their creation and significance."" * Renaissance Quarterly *" ""Penny Morrill’s wonderful book The Casa del Dean is a clearly written, well-researched, and beautifully illustrated monograph that studies one of the few remaining private mural cycles of sixteenth-century Mexico. It is at once a depressing tale of the murals’ partial destruction in the twentieth century due to local disregard for Mexico’s patrimony as well as a gripping and surprising account of the history of their creation and significance."" * Renaissance Quarterly * Author InformationPENNY C. MORRILL, who holds a PhD in Mesoamerican colonial art history from the University of Maryland, teaches in the art history department at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. In addition to her work on sixteenth-century Mexican architecture and mural painting, she is an authority and has published extensively on the history of modern Mexican silver. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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