mexicosmurals: Jose Joaquin Magon, pintor poblano: The Holy Trinity

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Jose Joaquin Magon, pintor poblano: The Holy Trinity

As we noted in our initial post on the artist, Works by Magón are found throughout Puebla. One interesting example is found in the parish church of Magdalena Quecholac, a former Franciscan mission church.

This representation of the Holy Trinity is closely based on a well known version by the eminent Mexican painter Cristóbal de Villalpando, located in the Puebla city church of El Carmen.

The Holy Trinity by Villalpando

color images from online sources

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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