colonialmexico

On a trip to document the carved stone crosses of the Mexico City area, we visited the singular church of Santa María Tepepan, near Xochimil...

San Felipe Néri - El Nuevo In its early years the Oratorian order of San Felipe Néri moved from place to place in Mexico City. Th...

The Paricutín volcano erupting, as seen from Angahuan (photo by Juan Rulfo)   In  our previous post we explored the abandoned colonial...

El Santuario de San Juan at the time of the 1943 eruption before burial by the lava flow In February 1943 the new volcano Paricutin b...

In our occasional series on the depiction of catholic saints—both well known and obscure—in Mexican art, we aim to illustrate  through image...

We conclude our posts on Epazoyucan with a review of the Sala de Profundis frescoes. Sala de Profundis: the south and west walls The...