Dialectics of Mendicant Art in Europe, Latin America, and Africa
Wednesday, February 14, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sutton Parlor North, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Delia Cosentino, DePaul University; Justine Andrews, University of New Mexico
Dialogue or Polemic? The Case of the Kalenderhane Fresco of St. Francis
Paroma Chatterjee, University of Chicago
Mendicant Art for Private Devotion: The Paradoxes of a 15th-Century Case Study
Margaret Hadley
Discourse and Discord: The Colonial Interpretations of the Genealogical Imagery at Santiago Apostol in Cuilapan, Mexico
Sara Taylor
Sebastian and the Chichimecas: Franciscan Images of Concordia in the Utopian Landscape
Julie Shean
Images, Catechism, and the Shaping of Doctrine: Capuchin Missionary Methods and the Making of Kongo Christianity in Early Modern Central Africa
Cecile Fromont