San Juan Nepomuceno and Criollo Identity in Late Viceregal Mexico

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dc.contributor.advisorNevitt, H. Rodney, Jr.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberKoontz, Rex
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLocheed, Jessica
dc.creatorGuillen, Maurise Carin
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-24T13:31:02Z
dc.date.available2014-07-24T13:31:02Z
dc.date.createdMay 2014
dc.date.issued2014-05
dc.date.updated2014-07-24T13:31:02Z
dc.description.abstractThis thesis argues San Juan Nepomuceno was an integral part of the rise of the criollo consciousness and its visual culture by presenting archival evidence of the saint’s devotion being cultivated by the criollos and Jesuits throughout the viceroyalty. It analyzes visual evidence of the saint by analyzing both the saint’s iconography and the uniquely New World objects such as the monja coronada paintings and the escudo de monjas on which his image is found and their social function during the viceregal era. The saint was indigenized by symbols representing the New World and eventually integrated into the nationalist image matrix. My thesis seeks to explore why the lay criollos incorporated this foreign devotion within their culture and identity. Like the eagle and the Virgen de Guadalupe, Nepomuceno was a patriotic symbol and source of nationalist pride for the criollo.
dc.description.departmentArt, School of
dc.format.digitalOriginborn digital
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10657/717
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).
dc.subjectCriollo identity
dc.subjectNepomuceno, San Juan
dc.subjectNepomuk, Saint John of
dc.subjectColonial Mexico
dc.subjectNew Spain
dc.subjectEscudo de monja
dc.subjectMonja coronada portraiture
dc.subjectJesuit
dc.subjectArt history
dc.subjectMexico
dc.titleSan Juan Nepomuceno and Criollo Identity in Late Viceregal Mexico
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dc.type.genreThesis
thesis.degree.collegeCollege of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
thesis.degree.departmentArt, School of
thesis.degree.disciplineArt History
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Houston
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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