The Art of Private Devotion: Retablo Painting of Mexico (SOLD)


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Suzanne Abel-Vidor, et al
  • Subject: Mexican Arts & Culture
  • Item # 0-935937-10-2
  • Date Published: 1991/12/01
  • Size: 126 pages
  • SOLD
1991. InterCultura and The Meadows Museum.

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Among the many decorative objects North Americans have discovered from our neighboring culture to the south are the small paintings on tin called retablos. originally these small paintings were not intended as decoration but for use in a home altar, a format foreign the North American culture with its more institutionalized religions.

Suzanne Abel-Vidor, et al
  • Subject: Mexican Arts & Culture
  • Item # 0-935937-10-2
  • Date Published: 1991/12/01
  • Size: 126 pages
  • SOLD

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