Clad in Flowers: Indigenous Arts and Knowledge in Colonial Mexican Convents

• Autores: James M. Córdova
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 93, Nº 4, 2011, págs. 449-467
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Nuns in New Spain (colonial Mexico) wore spectacular flowery trappings when they professed and again when reposing on their funeral biers. Local artists, commissioned by the nuns’ families and convents, captured these stunning images. Despite differences in ethnicity, religious order, age, and other factors that distinguished these women, their flowery trappings have the effect of establishing an iconic image of the New Spanish nun. Furthermore, their regalia, which combine Euro-Christian and Mesoamerican practices and beliefs, not only represented the preeminence of the “brides of Christ,” they also conjured the spiritual transformations that nuns experienced in their ritual lives.