“New architects, same masons”. Knowledge transfer and syncretism in four plateresque portals of the south and center of Jalisco, Mexico
[EN] Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Cocas and Sayulteca Indians of central and southern Jalisco experienced, like other Mesoamerican societies, a profound process of transformation in the wake of evangelization. The testimonies of this era are few, and less architectural; In...
| Autor: | |
|---|---|
| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) |
| Repositorio: | RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia |
| Idioma: | español inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/159406 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/159406 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Mexican Plateresque Amacueca Tequitqui Mezcala Plateresco mexicano |
| Sumario: | [EN] Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Cocas and Sayulteca Indians of central and southern Jalisco experienced, like other Mesoamerican societies, a profound process of transformation in the wake of evangelization. The testimonies of this era are few, and less architectural; In the region, unlike other areas such as Central Mexico, there are few diagnostic elements of the Plateresque style. In this work we analyze five unpublished examples through analogies, iconography, documentary sources and virtual anastylosis, in the towns of Mezcala, Teocuitatlán, Amacueca, and Santa Cruz. In some of the case studies, the trial and error process, typical of a learning and knowledge transfer stage between Europeans and natives, is evident. Apart from this, we can see in the chapels of the region an abundant repertoire of iconographic representations of the Tequitqui style or Indo-Christian art that reflect indigenous cultural continuity. |
|---|