The grandeur of Viceregal Mexico : treasures from the Museo Franz Mayer La grandeza del México virreinal : tesoros del Museo Franz Mayer
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The grandeur of Viceregal Mexico : treasures from the Museo Franz Mayer = La grandeza del México virreinal : tesoros del Museo Franz Mayer
Museum of Fine Arts , Museo Franz Mayer, c2002
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Catalog of the exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 24-August 4, 2002; the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Delaware, October 19, 2002-January 12, 2003; the San Diego Museum of Art, March 9-May 25, 2003.
Text in English and Spanish
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Mexican colonial period has traditionally been considered a dark period in the arts, a long gap between the arrival of the Spaniards and the early twentieth century. Through new and focused scholarship, the exhibition catalogue The Grandeur of Viceregal Mexico demonstrates that just the opposite is true. This landmark publication features extraordinary decorative and fine arts from the Mexican viceregal period (1521-1821). The lavishly illustrated catalogue is written in Spanish and English and, for the first time, presents to American audiences the rich artistic heritage of colonial Mexico. Five insightful essays by Mexican and American specialists explore the confluence of cultures that gives the arts of colonial Mexico a distinctive quality. This distinction, which differentiates the works from the arts of both Spain and other Latin American countries, is not widely understood in either the United States or Mexico. Expert commentaries enable readers to learn in greater depth about the outstanding collection of paintings, sculptures, furniture, ceramics, metals, textiles, featherwork, lacquer, and books housed in the Museo Franz Mayer in Mexico City.
The contributors are: * D. Hector Rivero Borrell Miranda, Director of the Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City * Gustavo Curiel, cultural historian * Antonio Rubial Garcia, historian * Juana Gutierrez Haces, art historian * Peter C. Marzio, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston * David B. Warren, Director of Bayou Bend Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Table of Contents
Contents Foreword by Hector Rivero Borrell M. and Peter C. Marzio Acknowledgments Franz Mayer: A Renaissance Man, by Hector Rivero Borrell M. The Kingdom of New Spain at a Crossroads, by Antonio Rubial Garcia Customs, Conventions, and Daily Rituals among the Elites of New Spain: The Evidence from Material Culture, by Gustavo Curiel The Eighteenth Century: A Changing Kingdom and Artistic Style, by Juana Gutierrez Haces The Parallel Legacies of Three Collectors: Franz Mayer, Ima Hogg, and Henry Francis du Pont, by David B. Warren Catalogue of the Exhibition Paintings Sculpture Furniture Ceramics Silver and Gold Iron Textiles Featherwork Lacquer Choir books Bibliography Index
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