colonialmexico

In a December 2016 ceremony, the keys to the newly restored chapel of La Conchita were handed to Franciscan authorities by an official of th...

Several new and recent books    have come across my desk this year  that touch on  different  aspects of Mexican art, history and culture.  ...

For the final post in our year end series on Yucatán we go to  the remote north eastern corner of the peninsula to look at the imposing ru...

This, the third and last in our series on the Dzidzantún murals, focuses on the cloister.      Two murals by the entry from the church po...

In our previous post we looked at the principal fresco of the Virgin Mary on the west facing wall of the polygonal apse at Dzidzantún (#1)...

We continue our year end series on  Yucatán  with three posts on the recently restored murals inside the major church and convento of Dzidza...