Architectural Rhetoric and the Iconography of Authority in Colonial Mexico

The Casa de Montejo
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-58565-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 196 mm x 393 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Reihe: Visual Culture in Early Modernity

This book investigates the Casa de Montejo and considers the role of the building’s Plateresque façade as a form of visual rhetoric that conveyed ideas about the individual and communal cultural identities in sixteenth-century Yucatán. C. Cody Barteet analyzes the façade within the complex colonial world in which it belongs, including in multicultural Yucatán and the transatlantic world. This contextualization allows for an examination of the architectural rhetoric of the façade, the design of which visualizes the contestations of autonomy and authority occurring among the colonial peoples.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barteet, C. Cody

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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