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100	1		_aCórdova, James M. _eautore
245	1	4	_aThe Art of Professing in Bourbon Mexico : _bCrowned-Nun Portraits and Reform in the Convent / _cJames M. Córdova.
264		1	_aAustin : _bUniversity of Texas Press, _c[2021]
264		4	_c©2014
300			_a1 online resource (288 p.)
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490	0		_aLatin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative, Mellon Foundation
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tList of Illustrations -- _tList of Abbreviations -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tIntroduction -- _tChapter 1 Women’s Religious Pathways in New Spain -- _tChapter 2 New Spanish Portraiture and Portraits of Nuns -- _tChapter 3 Euro-Christian Precedents in the Crowned-Nun Image -- _tChapter 4 Indigenous Contributions to Convent Arts and Culture -- _tChapter 5 The Profession Portrait in a Time of Crisis -- _tChapter 6 Colonial Identity Rhetorics -- _tEpilogue -- _tNotes -- _tGlossary -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aIn the eighteenth century, New Spaniards (colonial Mexicans) so lauded their nuns that they developed a local tradition of visually opulent portraits, called monjas coronadas or “crowned nuns,” that picture their subjects in regal trappings at the moment of their religious profession and in death. This study identifies these portraits as markers of a vibrant and changing society that fused together indigenous and Euro-Christian traditions and ritual practices to construct a new and complex religious identity that was unique to New Spain. To discover why crowned-nun portraits, and especially the profession portrait, were in such demand in New Spain, this book offers a pioneering interpretation of these works as significant visual contributions to a local counter-colonial discourse. James M. Córdova demonstrates that the portraits were a response to the Spanish crown’s project to modify and modernize colonial society—a series of reforms instituted by the Bourbon monarchs that threatened many nuns’ religious identities in New Spain. His analysis of the portraits’ rhetorical devices, which visually combined Euro-Christian and Mesoamerican notions of the sacred, shows how they promoted local religious and cultural values as well as client-patron relations, all of which were under scrutiny by the colonial Church. Combining visual evidence from images of the “crowned nun” with a discussion of the nuns’ actual roles in society, Córdova reveals that nuns found their greatest agency as Christ’s brides, a title through which they could, and did, challenge the Church’s authority when they found it intolerable.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)
650		0	_aArt and society _zMexico _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aCrowned-nun portraits.
650		0	_aNational characteristics, Mexican, in art.
650		0	_aPortrait painting, Mexican _y18th century.
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856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/753150
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292753167
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292753167/original
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