Pinturas novohispanas en España: responsables, finalidad y procedimiento

Abstract

Nowadays a significant amount of mexican colonial painting belonging to XVII and XVIII centuries remains in Spain and they are distributed among museums, religious institutiones and private collections. In the most of the cases they are oils painted over canvas which iconographic theme is the Virgin of Guadalupe. Althought they are located in whatever region, most of them are found in the places close bounder to the viceroyalty, being of particular interest those located in the western part of Andalucía (Spain). One of the most interesting but unknown aspect is that concerning to the paintings arrival process in which several factors are involved and underlie questions like a) who were the main figures, b) which was their purpuse, c) What methodology they used, d) where paintings finally arrived, and e) which was the background of this process.