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Cultural Transmission and Transformation

in the

Ibero-American World, 1200 -1800

 Fall 1995 Conference at Virginia Tech

 Donaldson Brown Center for Continuing Education

Saturday & Sunday

October 21 & 22, 1995

 Host:

Humberto Rodriguez-Camilloni, Director

Henry Wiss Center for Theory and History of Architecture

Sponsored by the

Inter-American Institute for Advanced Studies in Cultural History 

Co-Chairs:

James B. Kiracofe and Richard E. Phillips  

 

NOTE: THE PAPERS FROM THIS CONFERENCE 

WILL BE PUBLISHED HERE AS TIME PERMITS.

PLEASE FIND BELOW THE SYMPOSIA AND 

SPEAKERS LIST.

 

SCHEDULE:

Ocober 21, 1995

Saturday Symposium:

Cultural Transmission and Transformation

In the Iberoamerican World, 1200-1800.

 

8:00-9:00 Coffee & Registration

 

9:00-9:10 Opening Remarks, James B. Kiracofe

 

9:10-9:40 Jennifer R. Goodman, Texas A&M

"The image of the knight in Ibero-American cultures."

9:40-9:55 Questions & Answers

 

10:00-10:30 Susan Webster, University of St. Thomas

"Processional Art of the Penitential Confraternities of Seville, and Transmission into New Spain: the Case of Huejotzingo."

10:30-10:45 Questions and Answers

 

10:45-11:00 Coffee

 

11:00-11:30 Eréndira de la Lama, Intituto Nacional de Antrología y Historia, Mexico

"El Diablo y su imagen en el arte Novohispano del siglo XVI."

11:00-11:45 Questions and Answers

 

11:50-12:20 James B. Kiracofe, Virginia Tech

"Cultural integration and architectural fusion as a strategy for survival: the iconographic use of disk frieze ornament in pre-Columbian and early colonial buildings."

12:20-12:35 Questions and Answers

 

12:35-2:00 Lunch and informal conversation

 

2:00-2:30 Rev. Jaime Lara, Yale University Institute of Sacred Music and Art

"The Mirror on the Cross: a Medieval Reflection on/in the Mexican Atrio Cross"

2:30-2:45 Questions and Answers

 

2:45-3:15 Richard E. Phillips, Virginia Commonwealth University

"Processions through paradise: A liturgical and social interpretation of the ritual function and symbolic signification of the cloister in the sixteenth-century monasteries of central Mexico."

3:15-4:00 Questions and Answers

 

4:00-4:15 Coffee

4:15-4:45 Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Harvard University

"The Jesuits in Mughal India: The ritual use of Catholic art in mural painting."

4:45-5:00 Questions and Answers

 

5:00-5:30 Sam Edgerton, Williams College

"Leon Battista Alberti vs. Quetzalcoatl: The role of Renaissance perspective in sixteenth-century "conversion" of Mexico."

5:30-5:45 Questions and Answers

 

5:45-5:55 Break

 

5:55-6:25 Maria Fernandez, University of Connecticut

"Creole Identity Formation through the art of of 17th century."

6:25-6:40 Questions and Answers

 

6:40-6:50 Concluding Remarks, Richard E. Phillips

 

7:00-9:00 Reception at University Club

October 22, 1995

 

Sunday Symposia A:

Transmission and Transformation of

European Architecture and Sacred Art

 

8:00-9:00 Coffee

 

9:00-9:10 Opening Remarks, James B. Kiracofe

 

9:10-9:40 Sidney D. Markman, Duke University, Emeritus

"Mudejar Architecture in Spain and Guatemala"

9:40-9:55 Questions & Answers

 

10:00-10:30 Andrew Stephen Arbury, Radford University

"Transmission of the Spanish Catafalque to the New World."

10:30-10:45 Questions and Answers

 

10:45-11:00 Coffee

 

11:00-11:30 Clara Bargellini, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM

"The dome: between Renaissance and Baroque in New Spain."

11:00-11:45 Questions and Answers

 

11:50-12:20 Humberto Rodriguez-Camilloni, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Gothic Rib-vaulting in 17-Century Peru

12:20-12:35 Questions and Answers

 

12:35-1:05 Jacinto Quurarte, University of Texas at San Antonio

"The Altarpieces of the San Antonio Missions: A Reconstruction."

1:05-1:20 Questions and Answers

 

1:20-1:30 Concluding Remarks, James B. Kiracofe

 

Transportation to Airport to be Announced

 

Sunday Symposia B:

Transmission and Transformation of

Mesoamerican Architecture and Sacred Art

 

8:00-9:00 Coffee

 

9:00-9:10 Opening Remarks, Richard E. Phillips

 

9:10-9:40 Maelee T. Foster, University of Florida

"The Popol Vuh, Mythological Book of the ancient Maya, as generator of architectural space and form."

9:40-9:55 Questions & Answers

 

10:00-10:30 E. Logan Wagner, Architect, University of Texas

"Urban spatial continuity as a tool of conversion: The case of Izamal."

10:30-10:45 Questions and Answers

 

10:45-11:00 Coffee

 

11:00-11:30 Magdiel Castillo-Báquer, Texas at Austin, Latin American Studies

"The influence of the pre-Columbian Quincunx Theory of Cosmic Forces on the Colonial Processional Practices of the Maya."

11:00-11:45 Questions and Answers

 

11:50-12:20 Franke J. Neumann, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

"The cross in colonial Mayan culture."

12:20-12:35 Questions and Answers

 

12:35-1:05 Julia May, Virginia Commonwealth University

"The Sacred Mother of Santa Maria Tonanzintla."

1:05-1:20 Questions and Answers

 

1:20-1:30 Concluding Remarks, Richard Phillips

 

Transportation to Airport to be Announced

 

 

 

LIST OF SPEAKERS

 

Andrew Stephen Arbury, Radford University

"Transmission of the Spanish Catafalque to the New World."

 

Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Harvard University

"The Jesuits in Mughal India: The ritual use of Catholic art in mural painting."

 

Clara Bargellini, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM

"The dome: between Renaissance and Baroque in New Spain."

 

Magdiel Castillo-Báquer, Texas at Austin, Latin American Studies

                    "The influence of the pre-Columbian Quincunx Theory of Cosmic Forces on the Colonial Processional Practices of the Maya."

 

Sam Edgerton, Williams College

"Leon Battista Alberti vs. Quetzalcoatl: The role of Renaissance perspective in sixteenth-century "conversion" of Mexico."

 

Maelee T. Foster, University of Florida

"The Popol Vuh, Mythological Book of the ancient Maya, as generator of architectural space and form."

 

Jennifer R. Goodman, Texas A&M

"The image of the knight in Iberro-American cultures."

 

James B. Kiracofe, Virginia Tech

"Cultural integration and architectural fusion as a strategy for survival: the iconographic use of disk frieze ornament in pre-Columbian and early colonial buildings."

 

Eréndira de la Lama, Intituto Nacional de Antrología y Historia, Mexico

"El Diablo y su imagen en el arte Novohispano del siglo XVI."

 

Rev. Jaime Lara, Yale University Institute of Sacred Music and Art

"The Mirror on the Cross: a Medieval Reflection on/in the Mexican Atrio Cross"

 

 

Sidney D. Markman, Duke University, Emeritus

"Mudejar Architecture in Spain and Guatemala"

 

Julia May, Virginia Commonwealth University

"The Sacred Mother of Santa Maria Tonanzintla."

 

Franke J. Neumann, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

"The cross in colonial Mayan culture."

 

Richard E. Phillips, Virginia Commonwealth University

"Processions through paradise: A liturgical and social interpretation of the ritual function and symbolic signification of the cloister in the sixteenth-century monasteries of central Mexico."

 

Jacinto Quurarte, University of Texas at San Antonio

"The Altarpieces of the San Antonio Missions: A Reconstruction."

 

Humberto Rodriguez-Camilloni, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

"Gothic Rib-vaulting in 17-Century Peru"

 

E. Logan Wagner, Architect, University of Texas

"Urban spatial continuity as a tool of conversion: The case of Izamal."

 

Susan Webster, University of St. Thomas

"Processional Art of the Penitential Confraternities of Seville, and Transmission into New Spain: the Case of Huejotzingo."

 

Maria Fernandez, University of Connecticut

"Creole Identity Formation through the Art of of 17th century."