colonialmexico

In earlier posts in this series we featured the stone altarpieces at San José Chiapa, Puebla Cathedral, Guadalupe in Aguascalientes, Chihuah...

The only documented stone retablo in Mexico City is that in the former church of San Pablo El Viejo , located in the historic Merced quart...

El Santuario de Guadalupe Located on Guadalupe St, in the barrio of the same name close to the historic center of Aguascalientes, t...

From the cathedral in Puebla we now turn north to  Chihuahua cathedral.   Among its many other treasures, three stone altarpieces stand in t...

In this blog we often report on the variety of colonial altarpieces in churches across Mexico.  For the most part these were fabricated from...

Los Santos Reyes (Tizimín, Yucatán) On the feast day of the Three Kings (Los Santos Reyes or Los Reyes Magos) we would like to thank our...

For our initial post of 2015, and  as an introduction to our new series on Mexican stone retablos,  we look at one of the most distinctive a...