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- catalog abstract ""The author brings a wealth of knowledge of medieval and Renaissance European history, philosophy, theology, art, and architecture to bear on colonial Mexico at the same time as he focuses on indigenous contributions to the colonial enterprise. This study enriches our understanding of the colonial process and the reciprocal relationship between European friars and native artisans."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12219972.
- catalog contributor b12219973.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""The author brings a wealth of knowledge of medieval and Renaissance European history, philosophy, theology, art, and architecture to bear on colonial Mexico at the same time as he focuses on indigenous contributions to the colonial enterprise. This study enriches our understanding of the colonial process and the reciprocal relationship between European friars and native artisans."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-344) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction : art as a tool of Christian conversion -- The millennium of the Mendicant friars -- The cross and the tree : the Christian convento as Indian cosmos -- The arch and the cave : open chapels in the Yucatán -- Indians and Renaissance art : Fray Pedro de Gante's School of Art at San José de Los Naturales -- Christian murals by Indian artists -- The convento as theater : medieval autos and nahua neixcuitill -- Stage and scenery -- The cloister as theater : Adam and Eve lost in Aztec paradise -- The convento as theater of memory -- "El Dorado" : the desolate desert conventos of New Mexico, 1598-1700 -- Religious architecture in "Those most remote provinces".".
- catalog extent "xvii, 350 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Theaters of conversion.".
- catalog identifier "0826322565".
- catalog isFormatOf "Theaters of conversion.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press,".
- catalog relation "Theaters of conversion.".
- catalog spatial "Mexico".
- catalog spatial "Mexico.".
- catalog subject "704.9/482/0972 21".
- catalog subject "Christian art and symbolism Mexico.".
- catalog subject "Church architecture Mexico.".
- catalog subject "Missionaries Mexico History.".
- catalog subject "N7914.A1 E34 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : art as a tool of Christian conversion -- The millennium of the Mendicant friars -- The cross and the tree : the Christian convento as Indian cosmos -- The arch and the cave : open chapels in the Yucatán -- Indians and Renaissance art : Fray Pedro de Gante's School of Art at San José de Los Naturales -- Christian murals by Indian artists -- The convento as theater : medieval autos and nahua neixcuitill -- Stage and scenery -- The cloister as theater : Adam and Eve lost in Aztec paradise -- The convento as theater of memory -- "El Dorado" : the desolate desert conventos of New Mexico, 1598-1700 -- Religious architecture in "Those most remote provinces".".
- catalog title "Theaters of conversion : religious architecture and Indian artisans in colonial Mexico / Samuel Y. Edgerton ; with photographs by Jorge Pérez de Lara ; drawings by Mark Van Stone, James E. Ivey, and the author.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".