In the Hands of Devotees

Indigenous and Black Confraternities and the Creation of Visual Culture in Colonial Lima

Ximena A. Gómez (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2025
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-3240-5 (ISBN)

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Colonial Lima was steeped in Christian devotional imagery. While Spaniards set the norms for these works, it was the city's Black and Indigenous majority that engaged with them most. As members of lay societies of worshippers called confraternities, subalterns were Lima's key promoters of religious art, surpassing the colonial hierarchy. Ximena Gómez argues that, by commissioning and exhibiting sacred images—in chapels and urban processions, adorned with clothing and accessories—Indigenous and Black confraternities created Lima's visual culture. In one case study, the Indigenous confraternity of the Virgin of Copacabana "invisibly" transforms a sculpture into an object that reflected its multiethnic Andean caretakers. Another case study, that of the confraternity of the Virgin of the Antigua, finds Black worshippers initially united in their interpretation of a Spanish image and later fracturing when some of its members applied a West African interpretive lens. Taking advantage of Lima's rich documentary record, In the Hands of Devotees centers the ritual practices of Black and Indigenous people and opens possibilities for incorporating subalterns into the history of Lima's art when limited extant visual evidence has survived.

Ximena A. Gómez is an assistant professor in the Department of the History of Art & Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I

1. Curating Sacred Images and Interactions
2. Inside the Church
3. Fiestas and Processions

Part II

4. The Continuous Creation of the Virgin of Copacabana
5. A Virgin from Seville, Contentious Goods, and a Black Confraternity
6. From Ira to Imagen and Back

Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendices

Erscheinungsdatum	18.08.2025
Zusatzinfo	25 color photos, 27 b&w photos
Verlagsort	Austin, TX
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4773-3240-5 / 1477332405
ISBN-13	978-1-4773-3240-5 / 9781477332405
Zustand	Neuware