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So called because it provided a place of worship for the native population apart from the more exclusive main church, t he  adjacent Capilla...

Opposite each other beneath the choir at the west end of the church are a pair of smaller retablos: those of San Isidro and Santa Lucia.   ...

We continue our discussion of  the six lateral retablos in the church nave with  the two altarpieces nearest the transepts: those dedicated...

In this and subsequent posts we look at the six lateral retablos in the church. As we noted earlier, these are smaller in scale than the mai...

Santa Prisca: the Guadalupe retablo (detail) © Carolyn Brown In this second post we look at the twin altarpieces (retablos) facing each...

Santa Prisca, the nave facing east.   ©  Claudio Giovenzana. In an earlier post we described the exterior architecture of Santa Prisca...

We bring our series on the painted churches of Michoacán to a close with a look at a barrio chapel in the old colonial mining town of Tla...