The Art of Professing in Bourbon Mexico : Crowned-Nun Portraits and Reform in the Convent
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0292753152
ISBN-13
9780292753150
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Imprint
University of Texas Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 6th, 2014
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
626 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 2.80 cms
Product Classification:
History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800Painting & paintingsPortraits in art
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By the eighteenth century, New Spaniards (colonial Mexicans) so lauded their nuns that they developed a local tradition of visually opulent portraits, called monjas coronadas or "crowned nuns," that picture their subjects in regal trappings at the moment of their religious profession and in death. This study identifies these portraits.
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