colonialmexico

From time to time we take a look at modest Mexican churches with a colonial pedigree that are overlooked by most students of viceregal art...

In the next of our series on the notable altarpieces of Northern Mexico, we visit the rebuilt/reassembled parish church/cathedral of Nuest...

We thought our readers would be interested in this new exhibit of striking photographic images, mostly drawn from colonial Mexico, by our fr...

In a previous post we wrote about the great Ureña  *  retablo in Monclova . For this post, the third in our series on exceptional altarpie...

We continue our series of posts on Tlaxcalan altarpieces with a visit to the church of the Assumption, now Tlaxcala cathedral, which with it...

Continuing our series on the colonial altarpieces of Tlaxcala, we look at the extraordinary main altarpiece at Zacatelco. The city of ...

For the second in our series on northern Mexican altarpieces of note we go to  the resort town of  Parras de la Fuente, in the border state ...