The Art of Painting in Colonial Bolivia / El arte de la pintura en Bolivia colonial
Price: $120.00
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher: Saint Joseph's University Press
Date Published: 2017
ISBN: 9781945402319
Book ID: 85
Description:
530 pages / index / 9 ¾ x 12 ¾ / 412 color images
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This anthological volume is dedicated to the art of painting in pre-independence Bolivia, prompted by the belief that a compendium of handsomely photographed, full-color images will bring renewed public and scholarly attention to a rich cultural heritage that has not received its due. An ambitious round of new photography has been joined by an international roster of scholarly contributors from the United States, Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia to offer both the general reader and specialists an overview of the art of painting in the region of South America once called "Charcas" and later "Alto Perú." Attention is brought to the role of European subjects and styles in the development of regional forms of expression, as well as the influence of art and artists from Cuzco, Peru. Works by painters active in La Paz, Sucre, and Potosí such as Leonardo Flores, Melchor Pérez Holguín, and Gaspar Miguel de Berrío have received close reading of iconographical themes that were often of particularly local interest.
Table of Contents:
Prologue / Prólogo
Mitchell Codding, Director of The Hispanic Society of America
Acknowledgments / Agradecimientos
Essays:
The Art of Painting in Colonial Bolivia 1600&1825 / El arte de la pintura en la Bolivia colonial, 1600&1825 | Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt
Mural Painting in Bolivia / Pintura mural en la Bolivia | Philipp Schauer
The Pillars of Hercules in Charcas: Imperial Visual Politics in the Viceregal Art in Bolivia / Las columnas de Hércules en Charcas: Política visual imperial en el arte virreinal boliviano | Ramón Mujica Pinilla
The Use of Prints in Spanish Colonial Art: Approaching the Bolivian Corpus / El uso de grabados en el arte colonial: Una aproximación al corpus boliviano | Almerindo Ojeda Di Ninno
The Image of Saint Joseph in a Selection of Colonial Paintings in Bolivian Collections / La imagen de San José en una selección de pinturas coloniales en colecciones bolivianas | Carolyn C. Wilson
Portraiture in the Real Audiencia of Charcas / El retrato en la Real Audienca de Charcas | Jaime Mariazza F.
Old Testament Paintings in Colonial Bolivia: A Remote Past for New Believers / Pinturas del Antiguo Testamento en la Bolivia colonial: Un pasado remoto para nuevos creyentes | Agustina Rodríguez Romero
Statue Paintings: The Wayfaring Marian Images of Spain in Bolivia / Pinturas de estatua: Las imágenes españolas viajares de María en Bolivia | Jeffrey Schrader
Uniquely American Visions of the Virgin Mary / Imágenes unívocamente americanas de la Virgen María | Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
Mountains, Volcanoes, Stones and Promontories. Eighteenth-Century Marian Devotion and Painting in the Andes / Montañas, volcanes, piedras y promontorios. El culto a María en los Andes y la pintura devocional del siglo XVIII | Gustavo Tudisco
Through Ocaña's Eyes: Our Lady of Guadalupe in Sucre, Bolivia / A través de la mirada de Ocaña: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe en Sucre, Bolivia | Jeanette Favrot Peterson
The Nuns of Colonial Bolivia and the Art of Painting / Las monjas en la Bolivia colonial y el arte de la pintura | Adriana Pacheco Bustillos
The Carabuco Paintings of the "Four Last Things" /La pinturas de las Postrimerías de Carabuco | Gabriela Siracusano
Iconography and Ideology in the Paintings of Caquiaviri / Iconografía e Iconología en las pinturas de Caquiaviri | Lucía Querejazu Escobari
Iconographical Studies / Estudios iconográficos
Decorating Churches /La decoración de iglesias:
The Painted Decoration of the Church of Jerusalem, Potosí / La decoración pintada de la Iglesia de Jerusalén de Potosí | Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt
The Presbytery at the Sanctuary of Copacabana, Bolivia / Decoración del Presbiterio del Santuario de Copacabana, Bolivia | Lucía Querejazu Escobari
Jesus Christ / Jesucristo:
Christ Crucified with Saints, Church of Santo Domingo, Sucre / Crucificado de Santo Domingo de Sucre | Agustina Romero Rodríguez
Christ Carrying the Cross / Cristo con la cruz a cuestas | Lucía Querejazu Escobari
The Passion of Christ / La Pasión de Cristo | Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt
Christ of Malta / El Cristo de Malta | Héctor Schenone
"True Portraits" of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary / "Retratos Verdaderos" de Jesucristo y de la Virgen María | Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt
Our Lady / Nuestra Señora:
Praise be / Alabado Sea | Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt
The Soul of Mary / El Alma de María | Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt
Our Lady of Succor / Nuestra Señora de Socorro | Gustavo Tudisco
Our Lady of Remedies of La Paz / Nuestra Señora de los Remedios de La Paz | Gustavo Tudisco
Our Lady of Multiple Devotions / Nuestra Señora de Advocaciones Múltiples | Gustavo Tudisco
Mary, Queen of Heaven / María, Reina del Cielo | Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt
The Divine Shepherdess / La Divina Pastora | Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt
Presentation of the Chasuble to Saint Ildephonsus / La imposición de la casulla a San Ildefonso | Gustavo Tudisco
Our Lady of Soterraña of Nieva / Nuestra Señora de Soterraña de Nieva | Gustavo Tudisco
The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception in Paintings in Colonial Bolivia / La Virgen de la Inmaculada Concepción en las pinturas de la Bolivia colonial | Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt
Saints and Angels/ Santos y Ángeles:
The Painted Angels of Colonial Bolivia / Las pinturas de ángeles de la Bolivia colonial | Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt
Saint Nicholas of Tolentino and Saint Nicholas of Bari / San Nicolás de Tolentino y San Nicholás de Bari | Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt
Saint Augustine, Patron Saint of the Rich Hill of Potosí / San Agustín, Santo Patrono del Cerro Rico de Potosí | Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt
Virgin Saints and Martyrs / Vírgenes Santas y Mártires | Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt
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Bibliography/ Bibliografía
Index/ Índice
Contributors / Autores
About the Editor:
From the mid-1970s Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt has taught, published, and curated exhibitions about Spanish Early Modern art, for which she was awarded the Lazo de Dama de la Orden de Isabel la Católica. Since 2003 she has focused on Spanish colonial art, co-editing with Joseph J. Rishel the catalogue of the exhibition The Arts in Latin America 1492-1820 (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2006). As curator of the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Collection of Spanish Colonial Painting, she organized the exhibition catalogue The Virgin, Saints, and Angels: South American Paintings 1600-1825 from the Thoma Collection (Milan: Skira editore, 2006). Stratton-Pruitt edited The Art of Painting in Colonial Quito/El arte de la pintura en Quito colonial (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's University Press, 2012) as well as Journeys to New Worlds: Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Art in the Roberta and Richard Huber Collection (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2013), and she wrote about "Paintings in the Home in Spanish Colonial America" for the catalogue of the exhibition Behind Closed Doors: Art in the Spanish-American Home 1492-1898 (Brooklyn Museum, 2013).
“This sumptuous book, which was sponsored by the Hispanic Society Museum and Library, New York, comprises a collection of fully illustrated scholarly essays by a range of eminent experts in the field, exploring and explaining painting in Bolivia from the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth century. […] There is a useful Index and comprehensive Bibliography, and the illustrations are of a uniformly high standard; the design is exemplary. The verbal information, scholarly but clearly written, is presented as parallel texts in English and Spanish. The English translations are fluently written, and a pleasure to read. […] [T]his is a fine book, which must be an essential reference work for any scholar or student in this area. Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt is to be congratulated for having produced a highly attractive book. Bolivian art has been given the attention it rightly deserves.”
Holly Trusted (Victoria and Albert Museum, London) Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies 2 (2018)
“Written by a team of prominent North and South American art historians, this volume represents the first comprehensive study of painting in colonial Bolivia from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. […] [T]he editor and all the contributors are to be commended for the breadth and depth of their essays and iconographical studies. With over 500 illustrations, all in color and many previously unpublished elsewhere, this anthology will prove to be not only indispensable for specialists in viceregal art but also of interest to students and general readers. Published in a bilingual edition, it is very accessible to both English- and Spanish-speaking audiences.”
Lisandra Estevez (Winston-Salem State University), Renaissance Quarterly
“This lavishly illustrated bilingual volume is the second in a series edited by Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt to explore colonial painting in a region of South America. This anthology offers fourteen in-depth essays on painting in colonial Bolivia written by established and emerging scholars from across the Americas, and includes a second section of twenty-one focused iconographical studies. More than 400 high-quality color plates—many illustrating works not previously published—display the remarkably varied, complex, and visually opulent characteristics of painting in Bolivia (in this period, part of the Viceroyalty of Peru, and later that of La Plata) from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century. […] [T]he volume will appeal to students and general readers and will serve as a major scholarly reference for years to come.”
Susan Verdi Webster (College of William & Mary), Renaissance and Reformation