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Ambivalent Identities: Catholicism, the Arts, and Religious Foundations in Spanish America

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Gauvin Alexander Bailey
Gauvin Alexander Bailey*
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , 2013 , pp. 191 - 204
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Copyright © 2013 by the Latin American Studies Association

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A companion review essay will appear in a later issue.

References

1. Scarlett O'Phelan, La gran rebelión en los Andes (Cuzco: Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos Bartolomé de Las Casas, 1995).

2. Kenneth Mills, Idolatry and Its Enemies (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997); Sergei Serulnikov, Subverting Colonial Authority (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003).

3. William Taylor, Magistrates of the Sacred Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996).

4. Pamela Voekel, Alone before God: The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009).

5. Ricardo Gonzalez, Imágenes de la ciudad capital (La Plata, Argentina: Editorial Minerva, 1998); Kathleen Higgins, “Licentious Liberty” in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999). Castelnau-L'Estoile's monograph has not yet been published, but some of her material on the marriages of slaves (“Laïcs et religieux face au marriage des esclaves dans le Brésil colonial”) was presented at the conference “Laïcs et évangélisation en Europe et aux Amériques, XVIe–XVIIIe siècles” at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défence, March 29–30, 2012, Nanterre, France.

6. Most recently by Guillermo Wilde (Religión y poder en las misiones de Guaraníes [Buenos Aires: Ediciones SB, 2009]) and Alexandre Coello de la Rosa (El pregonero de Dios: Diego Martínez, SJ, misionero jesuíta del Perú colonial (1543–1626) [Valladolid, Spain: Universidad de Valladolid, 2010]), on Paraguay and Peru, respectively.

7. See Alicia Fraschina, Mujeres consagradas en Buenos Aires colonial (Buenos Aires: EUDEBA, 2010).

8. Kirsten Hammer, “Monjas coronadas: The Crowned Nuns of Viceregal Mexico,” in Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits, ed. Elizabeth Benson (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004), 86–101; Margaret Chowning, Rebellious Nuns: The Troubled History of a Mexican Convent (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006); Stephanie Kirk, Convent Life in Colonial Mexico: A Tale of Two Communities (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007); Elizabeth Perry, “Convents, Art, and Creole Identity in Late Viceregal New Spain,” in Women and Art in Early Modern Latin America, ed. Kellen Kee McIntyre and Richard E. Phillips (Leiden: Brill, 2007), 321–337.

9. Kathryn Burns, Colonial Habits (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999).

10. Josephina Muriel, Las indias caciques de Corpus Christi (Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma de México, 1963).

11. Asunción Lavrin, Brides of Christ (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008); Alma Montero, Monjas coronadas (Mexico City: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 2008); Sara Gabriela Baz, ed., Monjas coronadas (Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia and Museo Nacional del Virreinato, 2003).

12. James M Córdova, “Clad in Flowers: Indigenous Arts and Knowledge in Colonial Mexican Convents,” Art Bulletin 93, no. 4 (2011): 449–467.

13. Andrea Lepage, The Art of Evangelization (forthcoming).

14. On Central America, see El país del quetzal: Guatemala maya e hispana (Madrid: Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior, 2002). On New Granada, see Alexandra Kennedy, ed., Arte de la Real Audiencia de Quito (Quito: Editorial Nerea, 2002); Constanza Toquica, ed., El oficio del pintor: Nuevas miradas a la obra de Gregorio Vázquez (Bogotá: Ministerio de Cultura, 2008). On the Southern Cone, see Ricardo González, Imágenes de dos mundos: La imaginería cristiana en la Puna de Jujuy (Buenos Aires: Fundación Espigas, 2003); Fernando Guzmán, Representaciones del paraíso: Retablos en Chile (Santiago: Universitaria, 2009); Bozidar Darko Sustersic, Imágenes guaraní-jesuíticas (Asunción: Centro de Artes Visuales and Museo del Barro, 2010).

15. Myriam Ribeiro, O rococó religioso no Brasil (São Paulo: Cosac & Naify, 2003).

16. Corpus Christi: Carolyn Dean, Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999); paintings of the Virgin Mary: Carol Damian, The Virgin of the Andes (Miami Beach, FL: Grassfield Press, 1995); Nahua codices: Elizabeth Hill Boone, Stories in Red and Black (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000); casta paintings: Magali Carrera, Imagining Identity in New Spain (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003); Ilona Katzew, Casta Painting (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004); keros: Thomas Cummins, Toasts with the Inca (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002); lienzos: Barbara Mundy, The Mapping of New Spain (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).

17. Treated most recently by Samuel Edgerton, Theaters of Conversion (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001); Jaime Lara, City, Temple, Stage (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004).

18. Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999); Gauvin Alexander Bailey, The Andean Hybrid Baroque: Convergent Cultures in the Churches of Colonial Peru (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010).

19. For example, see Jonathan Brown, “Spanish Painting and New Spanish Painting,” in Painting a New World: Mexican Art and Life, 1521–1821, ed. Donna Pierce et al. (Denver: Denver Art Museum; Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005).

20. Antonio Palesati and Nicoletta Lepri, Matteo da Leccia: Manierista toscano dall'Europa al Perù (Foligno, Italy: Editoriale Umbra, 1999).

21. Matthew Restall, The Maya World (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997).

22. John McAndrew, The Open-Air Churches of Sixteenth-Century Mexico (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965).

23. Cited in Walter Hanisch, La Isla de Chibé, capitana de rutas australes (Santiago: Academia Superior de Ciencias Pedagógicas, 1982), 249.