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Saints and Santos: Picturing the Holy in New Spain - by Cristina Cruz González (Hardcover)
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- An exploration of how sacred art evolved in early Mexico, adapting to local cultures and featuring over sixty breathtaking paintings, sculptures, and engravings.
- About the Author: Cristina Cruz González is an Associate Professor of Art History at Oklahoma State University.
- 208 Pages
- Art, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions
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An exploration of how sacred art evolved in early Mexico, adapting to local cultures and featuring over sixty breathtaking paintings, sculptures, and engravings. This beautifully illustrated book reveals the importance of saints in New Spain, a viceroyalty that was part of the Spanish Empire from 1521 to 1821, covering modern-day Mexico, Central America, and the US Southwest. In the late sixteenth century, Rome's attempts to manage sanctity as an official process had a profound impact throughout Spain and the Spanish viceroyalties. Saintly devotions traveled to Mexico and circulated within the vast territory as images or print, then to be transformed by New Spain's own communities. Published in collaboration with the New Mexico Museum of Art and drawing on collections from Mexico and the United States, this book examines the role of images in the construction of the holy. The relationship between sanctity and the pictorial is a long, revered tradition that continues in the work of New Mexico's santero artists today.About the Author
Cristina Cruz González is an Associate Professor of Art History at Oklahoma State University.Dimensions (Overall): 11.26 Inches (H) x 8.23 Inches (W) x .92 Inches (D)
Weight: 2.63 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions
Genre: Art
Number of Pages: 208
Publisher: Scala Books
Theme: General
Format: Hardcover
Author: Cristina Cruz González
Language: English
Street Date: August 26, 2025
TCIN: 1002955116
UPC: 9781785516085
Item Number (DPCI): 247-31-1429
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 2.63 pounds
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