The Ibero-American Baroque

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The Baroque was the first truly global culture. The Ibero-American Baroque illuminates its dissemination, dynamism, and transformation during the early modern period on both sides of the Atlantic. This collection of original essays focuses on the media, institutions, and technologies that were central to cultural exchanges in a broad early modern Iberian world, brought into being in the aftermath of the Spanish and Portuguese arrivals in the Americas. Focusing on the period from 1600 to 1825, these essays explore early modern Iberian architecture, painting, sculpture, music, sermons, reliquaries, processions, emblems, and dreams, shedding light on the Baroque as a historical moment of far-reaching and long-lasting importance. Anchored in extensive, empirical research that provides evidence for understanding how the Baroque became globalized, The Ibero-American Baroque showcases the ways in which the Baroque has continued to define Latin American identities in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Cover Page i Title page Copyright page Dedication Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: The Ibero-American Baroque as the First Global Culture Part 1. Painting, Sculpture, and Other Arts 1 Transfers, Encounters, Innovations: The Church of the Third Order of Saint Francis of Penance in Ouro Preto 2 The Elevation of the Genre of “Shrine Paintings” in Peru 3 Baroque Reliquaries and Automata as Representations of Eternal Life 4 Marian Sculpture in Baroque Portuguese America Part 2. Architecture 5 Presence and Absence: The Holy House of Loreto in Ibero-America 6 From Intimate to Infinite Presence: The Camarín at Tepotzotlán 7 Passion in Motion: The Way of the Cross as Performance in New Spain Part 3. Music 8 Music in Processions at the Jesuit Reducciones of Moxos and Chiquitos in Bolivia 9 Neapolitan Technology and Galant Style in a Novohispano Context: Eight Concerted Responsories by Ignacio Jerusalem 10 The Resonance of Sor Juana’s Villancicos in Spanish Cathedral Archives Part 4. Textual Continuities and Change 11 Emblems and Wit in the Hispanic Baroque according to Baltasar Gracián 12 The Baroque as Paradox: Novelty and Printed Courtly Sermons in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century New Spain 13 The Literary Dream in Querétaro: A Baroque Genre and Enlightenment Ideals in New Spain List of Contributors Index Series List