Saints & Santos: Picturing the Holy in New Spain Symposium
- October 19, 2024
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM - Plaza Building
Join the New Mexico Museum of Art for a scholarly exploration of the exhibition Saints & Santos: Picturing the Holy in New Spain. This symposium will feature scholars on the topic of how saintly devotions traveled to our region, how they transformed and the attempts to propagate holy figures in the viceroyalty.
9:30 AM: Welcome, Dr. Mark White, Executive Director of the New Mexico Museum of Art
Session 1:
James M. Córdova, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Colorado Boulder“Sacralizing the Spanish-Aztec War in San Hipólito y las Armas Mexicanas”
Savannah Esquivel, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of California, Riverside“Franciscans on the Frontier: Lay Brothers and the Afterlives of Missionary Martyrs in Early Colonial Mexico”
Session 2: 10:30 AM
Derek Burdette, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Florida, Gainesville“Encountering the Divine: The Place of Miraculous Imagery in New Spanish Devotion”
Cesar Favila, Associate Professor of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles“Voicing Christ in New Spanish Missions”
11:30 Lunch Break
Session 3: 1:30 PM
Anna Nogar, Professor of Hispanic Southwest Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque“Colonial Mexico’s Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda: Mystical Author and Traveler”
Miranda Saylor, the Alice and Allan Assistant Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven“Painting the Author as Intercessor: Cristóbal de Villalpando and Sor María de Ágreda”
Break
Session 4: 3:00 PM
Ray Hernández-Durán, Professor of Art History, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque“From Universal Faith and Holy Veneration to National Politics and Modern Museology: The Invention of Colonial Art in Nineteenth-Century Mexico”
Free to attend.
American Sign Language interpreter will be provided.
This symposium is made possible by a generous grant from the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation. In their mission statement, “The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation recognizes that education and the arts enhance individuals’ lives and communities. Education is centered in the rural Southwest, primarily focusing on scholarships. In the Arts, we make grants, lend, and exhibit our art collection. We are strong believers in leadership, innovation, and equality of opportunity.”
image: Francisco Martínez, Santa Rosalia de Palermo, 18th century, oil on canvas, 37 3/8 x 31 1/2 in. (95 cm x 80 cm). Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlan, Mexico. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.
St. Francis Auditorium is equipped with an audio loop assisted listening system.