Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Subjectivity of Seeing
Chapter 1: The Sacrality of Blackness
Chapter 2: “Because She Was of Their Color”
Chapter 3: Her Presence in Her Absence
Chapter 4: Making Guadalupe
Chapter 5: A “Book of Miracles”
Chapter 6: Sacred Cloth and Veiled Body
Chapter 7: Aura and Authorship
Chapter 8: The Civil/Savage Paradox
Chapter 9: The Viceroys and the Virgin
Chapter 10: Collecting Guadalupe
Notes
Bibliography
Index
 

About the Author

Jeanette Favrot Peterson is Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco: Utopia and Empire in Sixteenth-Century Mexico, which won the College Art Association’s Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, and coeditor of Seeing Across Cultures: Visuality in the Early Modern Period.

Reviews

"Examines the imagery of the Virgin of Guadalupe from the Marian cult's origin in Spain to its transmission to the Americas and back again." - Chronicle of Higher Education "Incredibly thorough in both research and analysis, this book sets a standard for scholars of Spanish and Mexican art, religion, and culture." - Library Journal