Book
Architectural Rhetoric and the Iconography of Authority in Colonial Mexico: The Casa de Montejo
(2019)
Abstract
This book investigates the Casa de Montejo and considers the role of the building’s Plateresque façade as a form of visual rhetoric that conveyed ideas about the individual and communal cultural identities in sixteenth-century Yucatán. C. Cody Barteet analyzes the façade within the complex colonial world in which it belongs, including in multicultural Yucatán and the transatlantic world. This contextualization allows for an examination of the architectural rhetoric of the façade, the design of which visualizes the contestations of autonomy and authority occurring among the colonial peoples.
Keywords
- Colonial Yucatan,
- Plateresque,
- Merida,
- Montejo,
- Maya,
- Urban history,
- History of Architecture
Disciplines
Publication Date
Summer July 1, 2019
Publisher
Routledge
Series
Visual Culture in Early Modernity
ISBN
978-1-138-58565-2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429505157
Publisher Statement
e-version 2019
Citation Information
C. Cody Barteet. Architectural Rhetoric and the Iconography of Authority in Colonial Mexico: The Casa de Montejo. New York and Abingdon(2019) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/charles-barteet/1/