{"product_id":"maya-christian-murals-of-early-modern-yucat-n","title":"Maya Christian Murals of Early Modern Yucat?n","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first study of Christian murals created by indigenous artists in sixteenth and seventeenth century Yucat?n.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Maya artists painted murals in churches and \u003ci\u003econventos\u003c\/i\u003e of Yucat?n using traditional techniques to depict iconography brought from Europe by Franciscan friars. The fragmentary visual remains and their placement within religious structures embed Maya conceptions of sacredness beyond the didactic imagery. Mobilizing both cutting-edge technology and tried-and-true analytical methods, art historians Amara Solari and Linda K. Williams reexamine the Maya Christian murals, centering the agency of the people who created them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The first volume to comprehensively document the paintings, \u003ci\u003eMaya Christian Murals of Early Modern Yucat?n \u003c\/i\u003ecollects new research on the material composition of the works, made possible by cutting-edge imaging methods. Solari and Williams investigate pigments and other material resources, as well as the artists and historical contexts of the murals. The authors uncover numerous local innovations in form and content, including images celebrating New World saints, celestial timekeeping, and ritual processions. Solari and Williams argue that these murals were not simply vehicles of coercion, but of cultural \"grafting,\" that allowed Maya artists to shape a distinctive and polyvocal legacy in their communities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Amara Solari is a professor of art history at The Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMaya Ideologies of the Sacred: The Transfiguration of Space in Colonial Yucatan\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Linda K. Williams is professor emerita of art history at the University of Puget Sound. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50892918161682,"sku":"9781477329689","price":62.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1eb6de11-94e3-48dc-88c0-5477c9a2f3cc.jpg?v=1738212023","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/maya-christian-murals-of-early-modern-yucat-n","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}