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Notable for its fine stonework and gilded altars, the charming Franciscan church and mission of San Nicolás Oxtotipac, dedicated to the patron saint of miners, is to be found north east of Mexico City, not far from ancient Teotihuacan. Your editors will be traveling in Mexico during August, when they hope to visit Oxtotipac and many other early colonial churches and missions in the region. Aficionados of the colonial arts of 16th century Mexico: the architecture, the murals and especially the sculpture in all its forms, will welcome a wonderful new book, entitled Framing the Sacred, by the eminent British scholar Eleanor Wake.
In this comprehensive, meticulously researched and lavishly illustrated study, she examines and reevaluates the arts of the early churches and missions from the purview of native Aztec religious, cultural and artistic traditions in all their aspects.
A fuller review of this seminal new study of the indigenous contribution and viewpoint in this transformative Mexican century will follow shortly.
Framing the Sacred. The Indian Churches of Early Colonial Mexico
The University of Oklahoma Press. 2010
Our 2010 pages so far: January: Mexico City cathedral and Metztitlan (Hidalgo) February: Teopisca, (Chiapas) March: Murals of Izamal (Yucatán) April: Salamanca & Irapuato (Guanajuato) May: Patzcuaro cathedral: Michoacán June: Los Gozos (Puebla)
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