Linda K Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3736642 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda K Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda K |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS L K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Puget Sound |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Maya Blue and Franciscan Evangelism
In the first decades of the Franciscan evangelical campaign in Yucatán, Mexico (1540–90), Maya builders and artists directed the construction and pictorial decoration of hundreds of Christian edifices, ranging from small-scale chapels to larger churches and entire monastic complexes, offering a material record of the peninsula’s religious transformation. Strategic color selection and the deployment of Maya blue pigment in particular architectural…
Visual Culture of the Ancient Americas: Contemporary Perspectives
It is difficult to imagine that an art history of ancient America was nascent in the middle of the last century. Visual Culture of the Ancient Americas: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Andrew Finegold and Ellen Hoobler, celebrates and honors, upon her retirement, the teaching, collaboration, and scholarship of Esther Pasztory, professor emerita of art history at Columbia University and one of the founding scholars of pre-Columbian art histor…
Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain
Maya Ideologies of the Sacred: The Transfiguration of Space in Colonial Yucatan
Maya Ideologies of the Sacred: The Transfiguration of Space in Colonial Yucatan." Colonial Latin American Review, 23(2), pp. 285–286
The Birth of the Virgin with Saint Michael Mural at Tabí: The Inmaculada, Eschatology, and Christian Orthodoxy in Seventeenth-Century Yucatán
Late seventeenth-century murals in the camarín of the colonial Church of the Conception in Tabí, Yucatán, include an unusual image of Saint Michael and a dragon in the birth chamber of the Virgin Mary. The murals of the camarín served as a backdrop for the miracle-working statue of the Virgin, which had emerged from the nearby cenote in the early seventeenth century. This study argues that the mural imagery and statue responded to the use of the …
Modalities of Representation: Symbol and Narrative in 16th-Century Murals at the Convent of Izamal, Yucatán
This article examines the artistic elements present in the Mission of Izamal in Yucatán, Mexico. The author gives particular focus to the symbolic and narrative aspects of the mural paintings on the walls of the convent, which depict religious scenes within a natural landscape. She provides a brief history of the design and construction of the mission and its artwork, which date from the 16th century. A symbolic and literal interpretation of the …
Local and Global: Expanding Vision in the Study of Sixteenth-Century Latin American Arts
Maya Ideologies of the Sacred: The Transfiguration of Space in Colonial Yucatan
Maya Ideologies of the Sacred: The Transfiguration of Space in Colonial Yucatan." Colonial Latin American Review, 23(2), pp. 285–286
Local and Global: Expanding Vision in the Study of Sixteenth-Century Latin American Arts
Modalities of Representation: Symbol and Narrative in 16th-Century Murals at the Convent of Izamal, Yucatán
This article examines the artistic elements present in the Mission of Izamal in Yucatán, Mexico. The author gives particular focus to the symbolic and narrative aspects of the mural paintings on the walls of the convent, which depict religious scenes within a natural landscape. She provides a brief history of the design and construction of the mission and its artwork, which date from the 16th century. A symbolic and literal interpretation of the …
Maya Ideologies of the Sacred: The Transfiguration of Space in Colonial Yucatan
Maya Ideologies of the Sacred: The Transfiguration of Space in Colonial Yucatan." Colonial Latin American Review, 23(2), pp. 285–286
The Birth of the Virgin with Saint Michael Mural at Tabí: The Inmaculada, Eschatology, and Christian Orthodoxy in Seventeenth-Century Yucatán
Late seventeenth-century murals in the camarín of the colonial Church of the Conception in Tabí, Yucatán, include an unusual image of Saint Michael and a dragon in the birth chamber of the Virgin Mary. The murals of the camarín served as a backdrop for the miracle-working statue of the Virgin, which had emerged from the nearby cenote in the early seventeenth century. This study argues that the mural imagery and statue responded to the use of the …
Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain
Visual Culture of the Ancient Americas: Contemporary Perspectives
It is difficult to imagine that an art history of ancient America was nascent in the middle of the last century. Visual Culture of the Ancient Americas: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Andrew Finegold and Ellen Hoobler, celebrates and honors, upon her retirement, the teaching, collaboration, and scholarship of Esther Pasztory, professor emerita of art history at Columbia University and one of the founding scholars of pre-Columbian art histor…
Maya Blue and Franciscan Evangelism
In the first decades of the Franciscan evangelical campaign in Yucatán, Mexico (1540–90), Maya builders and artists directed the construction and pictorial decoration of hundreds of Christian edifices, ranging from small-scale chapels to larger churches and entire monastic complexes, offering a material record of the peninsula’s religious transformation. Strategic color selection and the deployment of Maya blue pigment in particular architectural…
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