mexicosmurals: Colonial Mexican Murals

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Colonial Mexican Murals

This month we mark the first anniversary of our specialized blog devoted to colonial Mexican mural art.
In addition to this past year's 51 posts (see sidebar) here are links to several earlier mural posts that appeared on our sister site:

Dzidzantún (Yucatán) 1 of 3

Epazoyucan (Hidalgo)
Metztitlan (Hidalgo)
Tepeji (Hidalgo)

Tepeapulco (Hidalgo)
Tlalmanalco (Edomex)

Tula (Hidalgo)
Tzintzuntzan (Michoacán)

Yecapixtla (Morelos)

Zempoala (Hidalgo)

Enjoy! Richard Perry

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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