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'Black But Human'
'Black but Human' is the first study to focus on the visual representations of African slaves and ex-slaves in Spain during the Hapsburg dynasty. The Afro-Hispanic proverb 'Black but Human' is the main thread of the six chapters and serves as a lens through which to explore the ways in which a certain visual representation of slavery both embodies and reproduces hegemonic visions of enslaved and liberated Africans, and at the same time provides material for critical and emancipatory practices by Afro-Hispanics themselves. The African presence in the Iberian Peninsula between the late fifteenth century and the end of the seventeenth century was as a result of the institutionalization of the l...
Transcending Textuality
In Transcending Textuality, Ariadna García-Bryce provides a fresh look at post-Trent political culture and Francisco de Quevedo’s place within it by examining his works in relation to two potentially rival means of transmitting authority: spectacle and print. Quevedo’s highly theatrical conceptions of power are identified with court ceremony, devotional ritual, monarchical and spiritual imagery, and religious and classical oratory. At the same time, his investment in physical and emotional display is shown to be fraught with concern about the decline of body-centered modes of propagating authority in the increasingly impersonalized world of print. Transcending Textuality shows that Quevedo’s poetics are, in great measure, defined by the attempt to retain in writing the qualities of live physical display.
The Book
"This volume seeks to delineate the history of the production, dissemination, and reception of texts from the earliest pictograms of the mid-4th millennium to recent developments in electronic books."--Page xi.
Praying to Portraits
In Praying to Portraits, art historian Adam Jasienski examines the history, meaning, and cultural significance of a crucial image type in the early modern Hispanic world: the sacred portrait. Across early modern Spain and Latin America, people prayed to portraits. They prayed to “true” effigies of saints, to simple portraits that were repainted as devotional objects, and even to images of living sitters depicted as holy figures. Jasienski places these difficult-to-classify image types within their historical context. He shows that rather than being harbingers of secular modernity and autonomous selfhood, portraits were privileged sites for mediating an individual’s relationship to the ...
El Parnasso espanol, monte en dos cumbres dividido, con las nueve musas castellanas. Donde se contienen poesias de don Francisco de Quevedo Villegas ... Que con adorno, i censura, ilustradas, i corregidas, salen ahora de la libreria de don Ioseph Antonio Gonzalez de Salas
Jose Antonio Gonzalez de Salas, amigo de Francisco de Quevedo, preocupado por recopilar sus poesias, llevo a la imprenta los poemas del poeta en una edicion de 1648 comentada por el. La titulo El Parnaso espanol: monte en dos cumbres dividido con las nueve musas. Fue Gonzalez de Salas quien ideo y justifico las imagenes, seis musas mas el frontispicio grabado al aguafuerte y al buril, que ilustrarian esta primera edicion: Clio, Polimnia, Melpomene, Erato, Terpsicore y Talia. Sin embargo, Gonzalez de Salas murio en 1651 y no pudo completar las tres musas restantes: Caliope, Euterpe y Urania. Las musas, dibujadas por Alonso Cano, fueron grabadas por Juan de Noort y Herman Panneels, holandes y ...
Maya Christian Murals of Early Modern Yucatán
"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 dep...
Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola
Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans of Kongo and Angola missions, composed between 1650 and 1750 for the training of future missionaries. These “practical guides” present the intricacies of the natural, social, and religious environment of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century west-central Africa and outline the primarily visual catechization methods the friars devised for the region. Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola brings this overlooked visual corpus to public and scholarly attention. This beautifully illustrated book includes full-color reproductions of all ...
