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In a previous post we described the musical angels around the dome of the priory church of San Agustín. Here we look at the sculpted cloist...

The striking brownstone facades of the modest hillside church of San Francisco Apaxco and its adjacent open chapel display some of the fin...

In another of our occasional series on musical angels in Mexican art, we look at the musician archangels of San Agustín, Querétaro . Impr...

In an earlier post, we looked at the main altarpiece ( retablo mayor)  at San Miguel Huejotzingo, a masterwork by the Flemish painter and...

Santo Domingo Hueyapan before the earthquake The early Dominican monastery of Santo Domingo, a World Heritage Site, is located in remot...

In an earlier post we described the main altarpiece at Pazulco in northern Morelos. We follow that with a post on another area retablo of n...

For the last in our current series on the Missions of Michoacán and their crosses we go to  Tzintzingareo (Hummingbird Sanctuary), l ocated ...