Pre-1600: The Arts: Publications
Pre-1600: The Arts: Publications
Alonso de Benavides, Fray Alonso de Benavides’ Revised Memorial of 1634, edited and translated by Frederick W. Hodge, George P. Hammon, and Agapito Rey (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1945)—an extremely valuable description of the missions in New Mexico written in the early seventeenth century by a visiting Franciscan friar;
Theodor de Bry, Grands voyages,10 volumes (Frankfurt am Main, 1590–1618)—copiously illustrated volumes detailing the European conquests of the Americas;
Friar Atanasio Domínguez, Missions of New Mexico, 1776: A Description by Fray Atanasio Domínguez, edited and translated by Eleanor B. Adams and Angélico Chavez (Albuqerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1956)—a Franciscan friar’s detailed description of the New Mexican missions;
Francisco Pacheco, El arte de la pintura, edited by Bonaventura Bassegoda i Hugas (Madrid: Cátedra, 1990)—a major treatise written by an Inquisition art censor in the early 1600s which includes the Inquisition’s guidelines for the production of religious art throughout the Spanish Empire;
Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá, Historia de la Nueva México, 1610, edited and translated by Miguel Encinias, Alfred Rodríguez, and Joseph P. Sánchez (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992)—an epic poem of the Spanish conquest of New Mexico.