Jeanette Favrot Peterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3736577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeanette Favrot Peterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeanette Favrot |
| FAMILY NAME | Peterson |
| SIGNATURE | PETERSON J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-1653-3214 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Altered Folios, Alternative Histories in the Florentine Codex
The histories found in the textual and pictorial narratives of the Florentine Codex (1575–77) were created by Nahua writer-artists (tlacuiloque) working with Bernardino de Sahagún. The manuscript reveals a complex process of translation, retelling, and visualization of Nahua culture, including the vivid memories of the Spanish-led invasion. Scholars have long worked with reproductions of the Florentine Codex as a “clean copy.” A closer engagement…
Foundational Arts
The English translation of Michael Schuessler's 2009 Spanish text only partially achieves the goals of a valuable synthetic study. As a survey of sixteenth-century mendicant visual culture in New Spain, it effectively compiles and reworks much that is known without, however, providing any startling new insights or taking advantage of more recent scholarship (by, for example, Samuel Edgerton, Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo, Jaime Lara, Viviana Díaz Bals…
Reliving Golgotha
The nuanced analysis of a large-scale religious ritual, under the probing scrutiny of a seasoned historian, provides one of the most fruitful entries into the social fabric of a community. The reenactment of the Christian Passion is thusly mined by Trexler, who explores how one Mexican town famed for its annual passion pageant also plays out the power struggles manifest on the larger national stage. With its “visualized brutality” (p. 17), the bi…
Creating the Virgin of Guadalupe
It was in 1531 that, according to the apparition legend first recorded over a hundred years later in 1648, Juan Diego’s visionary experience of the Virgin of Guadalupe was miraculously mapped onto his tilma ( tilmatli in Nahuatl) or woven cloak. This painted cloth, hereafter referred to as the tilma image, is said to be the same relic venerated today in the basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico City (fig. 1). However, no sacred image is i…
The Word Made Image
The six interdisciplinary essays in this slender volume offer a multifaceted view of Catholic art and architecture in sixteenth-century Spain and its colonies. In his introduction, Jonathan Brown frames the anthology, an outgrowth of a 1996 conference held at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, within the culture of the Counter Reformation as it reaffirmed the efficacy of images and acted as a catalyst for an outpouring of religious art. While u…
The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco
Examines in detail the murals painted on the vault walls of the Augustinian monastery at Malinalco, southwest of Mexico City, which have been progressively uncovered from layers of whitewash and restored since the 1970s. Shows how the combination of motives promoted the political and religious agendas of the Spanish conquerors, but also preserved a
Cambios
The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco
The Virgin of Guadalupe
Of the many images of the Virgin Immaculate venerated in Mexico, only the Virgin of Guadalupe has an overarching political significance. This essay will challenge two myths concerning her role as national emblem: first, that her cult spontaneously welded together all the strata of New Spain; and second, that Guadalupe from the sixteenth century on served as a symbol of freedom for the oppressed native populations. Instead, her meaning was reinter…
The Book of Life of the Ancient Mexicans. Book I
The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco
Examines in detail the murals painted on the vault walls of the Augustinian monastery at Malinalco, southwest of Mexico City, which have been progressively uncovered from layers of whitewash and restored since the 1970s. Shows how the combination of motives promoted the political and religious agendas of the Spanish conquerors, but also preserved a
The Virgin of Guadalupe
Of the many images of the Virgin Immaculate venerated in Mexico, only the Virgin of Guadalupe has an overarching political significance. This essay will challenge two myths concerning her role as national emblem: first, that her cult spontaneously welded together all the strata of New Spain; and second, that Guadalupe from the sixteenth century on served as a symbol of freedom for the oppressed native populations. Instead, her meaning was reinter…
Creating the Virgin of Guadalupe
It was in 1531 that, according to the apparition legend first recorded over a hundred years later in 1648, Juan Diego’s visionary experience of the Virgin of Guadalupe was miraculously mapped onto his tilma ( tilmatli in Nahuatl) or woven cloak. This painted cloth, hereafter referred to as the tilma image, is said to be the same relic venerated today in the basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico City (fig. 1). However, no sacred image is i…
The Book of Life of the Ancient Mexicans. Book I
The Virgin of Guadalupe
Of the many images of the Virgin Immaculate venerated in Mexico, only the Virgin of Guadalupe has an overarching political significance. This essay will challenge two myths concerning her role as national emblem: first, that her cult spontaneously welded together all the strata of New Spain; and second, that Guadalupe from the sixteenth century on served as a symbol of freedom for the oppressed native populations. Instead, her meaning was reinter…
The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco
Examines in detail the murals painted on the vault walls of the Augustinian monastery at Malinalco, southwest of Mexico City, which have been progressively uncovered from layers of whitewash and restored since the 1970s. Shows how the combination of motives promoted the political and religious agendas of the Spanish conquerors, but also preserved a
Cambios
The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco
The Word Made Image
The six interdisciplinary essays in this slender volume offer a multifaceted view of Catholic art and architecture in sixteenth-century Spain and its colonies. In his introduction, Jonathan Brown frames the anthology, an outgrowth of a 1996 conference held at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, within the culture of the Counter Reformation as it reaffirmed the efficacy of images and acted as a catalyst for an outpouring of religious art. While u…
Creating the Virgin of Guadalupe
It was in 1531 that, according to the apparition legend first recorded over a hundred years later in 1648, Juan Diego’s visionary experience of the Virgin of Guadalupe was miraculously mapped onto his tilma ( tilmatli in Nahuatl) or woven cloak. This painted cloth, hereafter referred to as the tilma image, is said to be the same relic venerated today in the basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico City (fig. 1). However, no sacred image is i…
Reliving Golgotha
The nuanced analysis of a large-scale religious ritual, under the probing scrutiny of a seasoned historian, provides one of the most fruitful entries into the social fabric of a community. The reenactment of the Christian Passion is thusly mined by Trexler, who explores how one Mexican town famed for its annual passion pageant also plays out the power struggles manifest on the larger national stage. With its “visualized brutality” (p. 17), the bi…
Foundational Arts
The English translation of Michael Schuessler's 2009 Spanish text only partially achieves the goals of a valuable synthetic study. As a survey of sixteenth-century mendicant visual culture in New Spain, it effectively compiles and reworks much that is known without, however, providing any startling new insights or taking advantage of more recent scholarship (by, for example, Samuel Edgerton, Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo, Jaime Lara, Viviana Díaz Bals…
Altered Folios, Alternative Histories in the Florentine Codex
The histories found in the textual and pictorial narratives of the Florentine Codex (1575–77) were created by Nahua writer-artists (tlacuiloque) working with Bernardino de Sahagún. The manuscript reveals a complex process of translation, retelling, and visualization of Nahua culture, including the vivid memories of the Spanish-led invasion. Scholars have long worked with reproductions of the Florentine Codex as a “clean copy.” A closer engagement…
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