Encuentros y desencuentros con la frontera imperial

Book Review| February 01 2021 Encuentros y desencuentros con la frontera imperial: La iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús de Quito y la misión en el Amazonas (siglo XVII) Encuentros y desencuentros con la frontera imperial: La iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús de Quito y la misión en el Amazonas (siglo XVII). By Fernández-Salvador, Carmen. Biblioteca Indiana. Madrid: Iberoamericana; Frankfurt: Vervuert, 2018. Map. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. 205 pp. Paper, €24.00. Ronald J. Morgan Ronald J. Morgan Abilene Christian University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 149–150. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8796594 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ronald J. Morgan; Encuentros y desencuentros con la frontera imperial: La iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús de Quito y la misión en el Amazonas (siglo XVII). Hispanic American Historical Review 1 February 2021; 101 (1): 149–150. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8796594 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsHispanic American Historical Review Search Advanced Search Carmen Fernández-Salvador describes this work as “a study of the early iconographic program of the Jesuit church of Quito . . . in conversation with the society's missionary project in Amazonia” (p. 15). And indeed, a central focus of this book is the relationship between Quito, the center from which emanates military, political, and spiritual conquest, and the Amazonian subregion of Maynas (the “imperial frontier” from the title). Interpreting Jesuit artistic works from both the church and the local colegio alongside a diverse array of contemporaneous texts, the author illuminates how concepts of center/periphery and civilization/barbarism shaped the construction of local civic and religious identities.Yet her reading of a cycle of seventeenth-century canvases depicting the Old Testament prophets offers much more than that, making the book compelling reading for scholars across the disciplines. An art historian, Fernández-Salvador offers a sophisticated analysis... Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press2021 You do not currently have access to this content

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