Abstract

ESCALANTE GONZALBO, Pablo. The Cross, the Sacrifice, and Native Christian Ornament. A Glimpse into a mid Sixteenth-Century Pottery Workshop in the Valley of Mexico. An. Inst. Investig. Estét [online]. 2018, vol.40, n.113, pp.81-116. ISSN 0185-1276.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iie.18703062e.2018.

This work is based on the analysis of a circular ceramic piece with indigenous and Christian symbols from Teotihuacán, recovered at the end of the 19th century. After a comparison with other pieces -among them, three other discs, hitherto unpublished- the whole group is shown to belong to a pottery workshop probably linked to the arts and crafts school of the Franciscans. It is the largest sample of sixteenth-century indigenous Christian liturgical pottery.

Keywords : Syncretism; Native-Christian art; Pottery; Nahua; San Juan Teotihuacán.

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