Architectural Rhetoric and the Iconography of Authority in Colonial Mexico: The Casa de Montejo

ISBN-13: 9781138585652 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 180 str.

C. Cody Barteet

Opis

This book investigates the role of the architectural façade as an indicator of individual and communal cultural identities, focusing on a residence of a conquistador rather than religious and monarchial structures.

Spis treści

Introduction;  1. The Casa de Montejo and Mérida; 2. The Plateresque Façade and Communal Identity in Spain;  3. The Montejo Façade and the Position of Adelantado;  4. Tihó-Mérida and the Casa de Montejo;  5. Gaspar Antonio Chi’s Heraldic Imagery and the Casa de Montejo Façade;  Conclusion

O autorze

C. Cody Barteet is Associate Professor of Art History at The University of Western Ontario, Canada.