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Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520-1820

Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520-1820

Stanfield-Mazzi, Maya

Hardcover

Caribbean, Latin American & South American ArtGeneral ArtGeneral Latin American History

ISBN10: 0268108056
ISBN13: 9780268108052
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Feb 15 2021
Pages: 432
Weight: 2.70
Height: 1.31 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

The book provides the first broad survey of church textiles of Spanish America and demonstrates that, while overlooked, textiles were a vital part of visual culture in the Catholic Church.

When Catholic churches were built in the New World in the sixteenth century, they were furnished with rich textiles known in Spanish as church clothing. These textile ornaments covered churches' altars, stairs, floors, and walls. Vestments clothed priests and church attendants, and garments clothed statues of saints. The value attached to these textiles, their constant use, and their stunning visual qualities suggest that they played a much greater role in the creation of the Latin American Church than has been previously recognized. In Clothing the New World Church, Maya Stanfield-Mazzi provides the first comprehensive survey of church adornment with textiles, addressing how these works helped establish Christianity in Spanish America and expand it over four centuries. Including more than 180 photos, this book examines both imported and indigenous textiles used in the church, compiling works that are now scattered around the world and reconstructing their original contexts. Stanfield-Mazzi delves into the hybrid or mestizo qualities of these cloths and argues that when local weavers or embroiderers in the Americas created church textiles they did so consciously, with the understanding that they were creating a new church through their work.

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