James M. Córdova, The Art of Professing in Bourbon Mexico: Crowned-Nun Portraits and Reform in the Convent (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014), ISBN: 978-0-292-75315-0 (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture publication initiative).
A new book by James M. Córdova, Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Colorado at Boulder, explores the tradition of the ‘crowned nun’ portrait in Spain’s American colonies during the eighteenth century. Continue reading
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