Maya Christian murals of early modern Yucatán / Amara Solari and Linda K. Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solari, Amara, 1978- author.

Williams, Linda K. (Professor of art history), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maya painting--Yucatán Peninsula--17th century--Religious aspects.

Maya painting.

Mural painting and decoration--Yucatán Peninsula--17th century--Religious aspects.

Mural painting and decoration.

Cultural fusion and the arts--Yucatán Peninsula--17th century--Religious aspects.

Cultural fusion and the arts.

Christian art and symbolism--Yucatán Peninsula--17th century.

Christian art and symbolism.

Mayas--Yucatán Peninsula--Religion--17th century.

Mayas.

Pigments--Analysis.

Pigments.

Mayas--Religion.

Central America--Yucatán Peninsula.

Physical Description:

xi, 221 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 29 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2024.

Summary:

"This multidisciplinary project studies religious murals that were painted by Christianized Maya artists in the first centuries after the conquest of Mexico. Solari and Williams study the paintings, all of which are based in the Yucatán Peninsula, from an art history perspective, along with the printed sources referencing the murals. At the same time, they examine the chemical signatures left by the murals' pigments and the techniques used in their production through state-of-the-art imaging technologies. By using these methodologies, the authors seek to explain the many ways in which cultural and material exchange took place between the Spanish and Maya peoples. At first glance, murals depicting Spanish ideals of Western Christianity would appear to be an obvious and frequent tool of oppression in the Yucatán, as they were elsewhere in the Americas, but they were also a form of agency for Indigenous people as a means to shape these narratives with their own subtle imagery and ideas drawn from Mayan cosmologies and cultural traditions. These painters used European pictorial techniques, such as perspective, while also using local materials to create vivid pigments and colors never before seen in murals in Europe. The authors seek to trace how the initial and continued use of these material sources to create these images led to a much more localized form of Catholicism that continues to be practiced by Mayan speakers today"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

List of illustrations

Introducing Catholic murals in an art historical context / Amara Solari and Linda K. Williams

Creating the corpus / Amara Solari and Linda K. Williams

The extirpation of color at the Convento of Saint Michael Archangel, Mani / Amara Solari

The transformation of sacred materials in the sacristy of Saint Michael Archangel, Temax / Linda K. Williams and Amara Solari

Franciscan and Maya contemplation the Convento of Saint John the Baptist, Motul / Amara Solari

Performing Christ's Passion at the Convento of Saint Clare in Dzidzantun / Amara Solari

Visualizing healing at the Convento of Saint Anthony of Padua, Izamal / Linda K. Williams

Local practice and trans-Atlantic theology through the seventeenth century / Linda K. Williams

Epilogue. The enduring medium / Amara Solari and Linda K. Williams.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-208) and index.

ISBN:

9781477329689

1477329684

OCLC:

1406020820

Publisher Number:

90101381329