Weaving and Tailoring the Andean Church
Textile Ornaments and Their Makers in Colonial Peru
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8873236 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maya Stanfield-Mazzi (0000-0002-7440-6957, University of Florida, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 77-102 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1615 • E-ISSN: 1533-6247 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/tam.2014.6 |
| OpenAlex | W2130678299 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 19 |
The first Christian churches were built in the Andes soon after Spaniards arrived. Initially simple structures, they were later remodeled into large stone monuments. Aside from their architectural construction, the furnishing and decoration of these churches was an ongoing project that involved many participants, often under the watchful eye of a parish priest. Art historians have uncovered fascinating cases in which native artists exercised agency in creating works to be displayed in church interiors, many of which expressed Andean as well as Christian beliefs. This scholarship has focused primarily on the art forms of painting and sculpture, which were very visible within the church, especially in cases such as the baptism murals discussed by Ananda Cohen Suarez in this issue. An underappreciated yet equally notable aspect of church decoration was textiles. Throughout the colonial period churches were abundantly adorned with “church clothing,” textile ornaments meant to cover floors, walls, and altars as well as clothe church functionaries and religious statuary. The purchase and maintenance of church textiles consumed the lion's share of annual church budgets
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Baptism · Clothing · Colonialism · Ornaments · Painting · Scholarship · Sculpture · Style (visual arts · Textile · Theology · Visual arts · Early Modern Women Writers · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · Latin American history and culture · Law · Philosophy
Peru's Indian peoples and the challenge of Spanish conquest
Shadows of Empire
The Andean Hybrid Baroque
Converging Cultures
Cult, Countenance, and Community
The Possessor's Agency
The Colonial Andes
Transatlantic Encounters
Hybridity and Its Discontents
"Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City
Object and Apparition
Protective Perimeters
Vanishing Art of the Americas
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |