mexicosmurals: Pazulco:The Baptistery Murals

Monday, October 8, 2018

Pazulco:The Baptistery Murals

In a companion post we looked at the main altarpiece in the church of Asuncion Pazulco. Here we view the murals of the baptistery.

Although this painted room contains no clear scene of the Baptism of Christ as is customary, the surviving mural fragments include, apart from some rosettes, emblems of early Imperial Spain, notably the heraldic lions and castles and the Hapsburg two headed eagle.

the lions and castles of Isabelline Spain

Two headed Hapsburg imperial eagle with Augustinian pierced heart emblem

Angel of the Passion

images courtesy of Niccolò Brooker

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Mexican Murals

For most people, Mexican murals bring to mind the large scale, revolutionary murals decorating the walls of many public buildings, painted by Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros, their followers and successors.

In contrast, this new blog will focus on a much earlier era of mural painting, one that flourished during the 16th century in the conventos and churches of Mexico, as part of the “spiritual conquest” of Mexico undertaken by the missionary Orders, primarily the Franciscans, Dominicans and Augustinians.

Some of these early colonial murals have already been described in our other blog, which we are re-posting in this blog . Many others will follow, and as with our other blog, we plan to highlight murals of special historic, cultural or artistic interest.

We will also feature selected larger oil paintings of special interest from time to time