Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Monday, December 29, 2014
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Mallorca
Petra, Mallorca, hometown of Serra
Father Serra in Mallorca
Rotary Club Mallorca, contacts of Father Serra
(I emailed them for info on establishing a contact)
Dave Bartruff Pilgrimage to Mallorca
davebartruff.com
Father Serrra
Father Serra in Mallorca
Rotary Club Mallorca, contacts of Father Serra
(I emailed them for info on establishing a contact)
Dave Bartruff Pilgrimage to Mallorca
davebartruff.com
Father Serrra
Sunday, December 14, 2014
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Monday, December 8, 2014
Saturday, December 6, 2014
Iconography
Exploring Iconography - Historical, cultural and geographical (Spain, Mexico, Indigenous )
conography -- giving us the Nahuatl terms for the symbols of power and authority of Nahua elite men. Note, too, the glyph for the name of Chimalpopoca, the shield (chimalli) with the puffs of smoke (standing for popoca) coming out the top. From the sixteenth-century Primeros Memoriales manuscript.
conography -- giving us the Nahuatl terms for the symbols of power and authority of Nahua elite men. Note, too, the glyph for the name of Chimalpopoca, the shield (chimalli) with the puffs of smoke (standing for popoca) coming out the top. From the sixteenth-century Primeros Memoriales manuscript.
Friday, December 5, 2014
Exploring Colonial Mexico
Eco Tours
Father Serra in Mexico,.....But few people of any age have seen the five earlier missions he helped create in Mexico's rugged Sierra Gorda region - and even if they had, they might not recognize the famed Franciscan's handiwork......That's because these missions' brightly colored, elaborately detailed exteriors are essentially their altars, "sermons in stucco and stone," as Julianne Burton-Carvajal, a Latin American studies professor at UC Santa Cruz, calls them....The five churches - Jalpan, Tancoyol, Tilaco, Landa and Concá - were designed to appeal to the Chichimecas, an unflattering catchall term for the indigenous people of several cultures who resisted Christianity and colonization by retreating to the mountains. At Jalpan, for example, a figure that may depict the tobacco god shares space with a statue of Saint Dominic; a rabbit, squash and corn appear at Concá. Native fruits and flowers also provide the background for religious statuary at Tancoyol, while the liberal use of red pigment at Landa would have been seen as a "potent symbol of sunrise, blood sacrifice and renewal," according to Burton-Carvajal.....
Exploring Colonial Mexico
Blog on Colonial Mexico
Father Serra in Mexico,.....But few people of any age have seen the five earlier missions he helped create in Mexico's rugged Sierra Gorda region - and even if they had, they might not recognize the famed Franciscan's handiwork......That's because these missions' brightly colored, elaborately detailed exteriors are essentially their altars, "sermons in stucco and stone," as Julianne Burton-Carvajal, a Latin American studies professor at UC Santa Cruz, calls them....The five churches - Jalpan, Tancoyol, Tilaco, Landa and Concá - were designed to appeal to the Chichimecas, an unflattering catchall term for the indigenous people of several cultures who resisted Christianity and colonization by retreating to the mountains. At Jalpan, for example, a figure that may depict the tobacco god shares space with a statue of Saint Dominic; a rabbit, squash and corn appear at Concá. Native fruits and flowers also provide the background for religious statuary at Tancoyol, while the liberal use of red pigment at Landa would have been seen as a "potent symbol of sunrise, blood sacrifice and renewal," according to Burton-Carvajal.....
Exploring Colonial Mexico
Blog on Colonial Mexico
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Exploring the California Missions
Junipero Serra and the Legacies of the California Missions
EXCELLENT contact below (Dr. Steven Hackel/ UC Riverside)
Ordered his book today.
Junipero Serra and the Legacies of the California Missions
EXCELLENT contact below (Dr. Steven Hackel/ UC Riverside)
Ordered his book today.
Email Correspondance about this exhibit
Hello,
Your request for resources was passed along to me. The biggest resource that I have to readily offer is our education website missionhistory.org – through the lens of California mission history we have put together a suite of lessons to help teachers and students develop their skills of working with primary source materials. Also on this site, there is a “links” button that takes you to a series of additional web-based resources on the topic.
Our exhibition was curated by two history professors from UC Riverside, Dr. Catherine Gudis and Dr. Steven Hackel. Dr. Hackel is a leading, perhaps the leading, scholar on Junipero Serra. This is his Serra book that came out last year. It was certainly deep, but a very good source of discovery for my work in creating the website and the accompanying school program.
The only additional item that I can offer is the attached copy of the school guide that we offered to all the groups that we toured through the exhibition. I’m not sure that it is super helpful in your pursuits, but it does highlight the way in which we are engaging with students on this subject, and many more.
Please let me know if there is anything more specific that I can answer and good luck to you!
Best,
Rachel
Rachel Vourlas Schacht
Manager of Library Education
The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino 91108
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Sunday, October 19, 2014
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