Bibliography
Numerous publications have been of assistance to me in my Mexican explorations and in the descriptive portion of this site. The essays, or squibs of text, which accompany the images are my efforts to best describe the respective structures. They are based on my accumulated, though highly inchoate, knowledge of architecture. I have often added quotations from some of the expert sources cited below to best delineate certain architectural or historical points.
Indispensable to me, both in terms of dating, if not actually locating, buildings has been the Mexico Blue Book which I carry with me every time I visit that country. According to the publisher’s notation the portion of the book devoted to the art and architecture of Viceregal Mexico has been compiled by John Collis. Whoever and wherever Mr. Collis is, clearly he is both exceedingly well traveled and prepared on the subject. My efforts to communicate with him have thus far been unsuccessful.
Atkinson, William C. A History of Spain and Portugal, Penguin Books, Inc., Baltimore, 1960
Baird, Joseph Armstrong. The Churches of Mexico 1530-1810, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1962
Benítez, Fernando. The Century after Cortés, translated by Joan MacLean, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1962
Butler, Mrs. John Wesley. Historic Churches in Mexico with Some of Their Legends, The Abingdon Press, New York and Cincinnati, 1915
Cali, François. The Art of the Conquistadors, Thames and Hudson, London, 1961
Chevalier, François. Land and Society in Colonial Mexico: The Great Hacienda, translated by Alvin Eustis, edited, with foreword by Lesley Byrd Simpson, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1970
Collis, John, and Jones, David M. Mexico Blue Book, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1997
ed. Dante. Religious Art in Yucatán, Mexico City, 2006
Early, James. The Colonial Art of Mexico, Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, 2001
Ferguson, George. Signs and Symbols in Christian Art, Oxford University Press, New York, 1966
Fuentes, Carlos. The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1999
Gage, Thomas. A New Survey of The West Indies, edited with an Introduction by A.P. Newton, The Broadway Travellers, 1648; reprinted, London, 1946
de Gante, Pablo C. La arquitectura de México en el siglo XVI, Editorial Porrua, S.A., México, D.F., 1954
Haring, C.H. The Spanish Empire in America, Oxford University Press, New York, 1947
Edited by Harris, Cyril M. Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture, edited by Cyril Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1977
Kelemen, Pál. Baroque and Rococo in Latin America, MacMillan Publishers, New York, 1951
Kessell, John L. Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 2002
Kubler, George. Mexican Architecture of the Sixteenth Century, volume I-II , Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1948
Kubler, George and Soria, Martin. Art and Architecture in Spain and Portugal and Their American Dominions: 1500-1800, Penguin Books, Inc., Baltimore, 1959
Leonard, Irving A. Books of The Brave: Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1949
Leonard, Irving A. Baroque Times in Old Mexico, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1959
Liss, Peggy K. Mexico Under Spain: 1521-1556: Society and the Origins of Nationality, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1975
McAlister, Lyle N. Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700: Europe and the World in the Age of Expansion, volume III. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1984
McAndrew, John. The Open-Air Churches of Sixteenth-Century Mexico: Atrios, Posas, Open Chapels and other Studies, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1965
Meyer, Michael C and Beezley, William H. editors The Oxford History of Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York, 2000
Moffitt, John F. The Islamic Design Module in Latin America: Proportionality and the Techniques of Neo-Mudéjar Architecture, McFarland & Co., Inc., North Carolina, 2004
Mullen, Robert J. Architecture and Its Sculpture in Viceregal Mexico, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1997
Mullen, Robert J. Dominican Architecture in Sixteenth-Century Oaxaca, Center for Latin American Studies and Friends of Mexican Art, Phoenix, 1975
Palmer, Gabrielle and Pierce, Donna. Cambios: The Spirit of Transformation in Spanish Colonial Art, 1992 by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in cooperation with the University of New Mexico Press
Paz, Octavio, into. Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries,exhibition catalogue: New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oct., 1990 - Jan., 1991. The exhibition traveled to San Antonio, Museum of Art, April - Aug., 1991 and Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Oct. - Dec., 1991
Paz, Octavio. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o Las Trampas de la Fé, Fondo de Cultura Económico, México, D.F., 1982
Perry, Richard and Rosalind, with drawings by Richard Perry. Maya Missions: Exploring the Spanish Colonial Churches of Yucatán, Espadaña Press, Santa Barbara, California, 1988
Perry, Richard, with drawings by the author. More Maya Missions: Exploring Colonial Chiapas, Espadaña Press, Santa Barbara, California, 1995
Perry, Richard, with drawings by the author. Exploring Colonial Oaxaca: The Art and Architecture, Espadaña Press, Santa Barbara, 2006
Porter, Eilot and Auerbach, Ellen. Mexican Churches, University of New Mexico Press, 1987
Prescott, William Hickling. History of the Conquest of Mexico, Harper & Brothers, London, 1843
Ricard, Robert. The Spiritual Conquest of Mexico, An Essay on the Apostolate and the Evangelizing Methods of the Mendicant Orders in New Spain: 1523-1572, translated by Lesley Byrd Simpson, University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1966
Rishel, Joseph J. and Stratton-Pruitt, Suzanne. The Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820, exhibition catalogue with essays by Mitchell A. Codding, Dilys E. Blum, Gridley McKim-Smith, Cristina Esteras Martín, Nuno Senos, Marjorie Trusted, Adrian Locke, Clara Bargellini, Ilona Katzew and Jorge F. Rivas. Philadelphia, Museum of Art, Sept. – Dec., 2006. The exhibition traveled to Mexico City, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Feb. – May, 2007 and Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, June – Oct., 2007
Sanford, Trent Elwood. The Story of Architecture in Mexico, W.W. Norton & Co., Inc. New York, 1947
TELMEX. Descubre México guide to the Estados de México
Todorov, Tzvetan. The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other, Harper and Row, New York, 1984
Toussaint, Manuel. Colonial Art in Mexico, translated and edited by Elizabeth Wilder Weismann, University of Texas Press, Austin and London, 1967
Vargaslugo, Elisa. México Barroco, Salvat Editores, Mexico City, 1993
Verástique, Bernardino. Michoacán and Eden: Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of Western Mexico, University of Texas Press, Austin, 2000
Vidman, John. The Catholic Church Through the Ages: A History, Paulist Press, New York, 2005
Villa, José Moreno. La Escultura Colonial Méxicana, El Colegio de México impreso y hecho por Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, D.F., 1942
Weissman, Elizabeth Wilder. Mexico in Sculpture: 1521-1821, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1950
Weismann, Elizabeth Wilder. Art and Time in Mexico: Architecture and Sculpture in Colonial Mexico, Harper & Row, New York, 1985
Wheatcroft, Andrew. Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam, Random House Trade Paperback Edition, New York, 2005
Zavala, Silvio. New Viewpoints on The Colonization of America, University of Pennsylvania Press, London, 1943
Zavala, Silvio. The Defense of Human Rights in Latin America: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Unesco, Belgium, 1964
Indispensable to me, both in terms of dating, if not actually locating, buildings has been the Mexico Blue Book which I carry with me every time I visit that country. According to the publisher’s notation the portion of the book devoted to the art and architecture of Viceregal Mexico has been compiled by John Collis. Whoever and wherever Mr. Collis is, clearly he is both exceedingly well traveled and prepared on the subject. My efforts to communicate with him have thus far been unsuccessful.
Atkinson, William C. A History of Spain and Portugal, Penguin Books, Inc., Baltimore, 1960
Baird, Joseph Armstrong. The Churches of Mexico 1530-1810, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1962
Benítez, Fernando. The Century after Cortés, translated by Joan MacLean, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1962
Butler, Mrs. John Wesley. Historic Churches in Mexico with Some of Their Legends, The Abingdon Press, New York and Cincinnati, 1915
Cali, François. The Art of the Conquistadors, Thames and Hudson, London, 1961
Chevalier, François. Land and Society in Colonial Mexico: The Great Hacienda, translated by Alvin Eustis, edited, with foreword by Lesley Byrd Simpson, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1970
Collis, John, and Jones, David M. Mexico Blue Book, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1997
ed. Dante. Religious Art in Yucatán, Mexico City, 2006
Early, James. The Colonial Art of Mexico, Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, 2001
Ferguson, George. Signs and Symbols in Christian Art, Oxford University Press, New York, 1966
Fuentes, Carlos. The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1999
Gage, Thomas. A New Survey of The West Indies, edited with an Introduction by A.P. Newton, The Broadway Travellers, 1648; reprinted, London, 1946
de Gante, Pablo C. La arquitectura de México en el siglo XVI, Editorial Porrua, S.A., México, D.F., 1954
Haring, C.H. The Spanish Empire in America, Oxford University Press, New York, 1947
Edited by Harris, Cyril M. Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture, edited by Cyril Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1977
Kelemen, Pál. Baroque and Rococo in Latin America, MacMillan Publishers, New York, 1951
Kessell, John L. Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 2002
Kubler, George. Mexican Architecture of the Sixteenth Century, volume I-II , Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1948
Kubler, George and Soria, Martin. Art and Architecture in Spain and Portugal and Their American Dominions: 1500-1800, Penguin Books, Inc., Baltimore, 1959
Leonard, Irving A. Books of The Brave: Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1949
Leonard, Irving A. Baroque Times in Old Mexico, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1959
Liss, Peggy K. Mexico Under Spain: 1521-1556: Society and the Origins of Nationality, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1975
McAlister, Lyle N. Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700: Europe and the World in the Age of Expansion, volume III. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1984
McAndrew, John. The Open-Air Churches of Sixteenth-Century Mexico: Atrios, Posas, Open Chapels and other Studies, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1965
Meyer, Michael C and Beezley, William H. editors The Oxford History of Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York, 2000
Moffitt, John F. The Islamic Design Module in Latin America: Proportionality and the Techniques of Neo-Mudéjar Architecture, McFarland & Co., Inc., North Carolina, 2004
Mullen, Robert J. Architecture and Its Sculpture in Viceregal Mexico, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1997
Mullen, Robert J. Dominican Architecture in Sixteenth-Century Oaxaca, Center for Latin American Studies and Friends of Mexican Art, Phoenix, 1975
Palmer, Gabrielle and Pierce, Donna. Cambios: The Spirit of Transformation in Spanish Colonial Art, 1992 by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in cooperation with the University of New Mexico Press
Paz, Octavio, into. Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries,exhibition catalogue: New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oct., 1990 - Jan., 1991. The exhibition traveled to San Antonio, Museum of Art, April - Aug., 1991 and Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Oct. - Dec., 1991
Paz, Octavio. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o Las Trampas de la Fé, Fondo de Cultura Económico, México, D.F., 1982
Perry, Richard and Rosalind, with drawings by Richard Perry. Maya Missions: Exploring the Spanish Colonial Churches of Yucatán, Espadaña Press, Santa Barbara, California, 1988
Perry, Richard, with drawings by the author. More Maya Missions: Exploring Colonial Chiapas, Espadaña Press, Santa Barbara, California, 1995
Perry, Richard, with drawings by the author. Exploring Colonial Oaxaca: The Art and Architecture, Espadaña Press, Santa Barbara, 2006
Porter, Eilot and Auerbach, Ellen. Mexican Churches, University of New Mexico Press, 1987
Prescott, William Hickling. History of the Conquest of Mexico, Harper & Brothers, London, 1843
Ricard, Robert. The Spiritual Conquest of Mexico, An Essay on the Apostolate and the Evangelizing Methods of the Mendicant Orders in New Spain: 1523-1572, translated by Lesley Byrd Simpson, University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1966
Rishel, Joseph J. and Stratton-Pruitt, Suzanne. The Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820, exhibition catalogue with essays by Mitchell A. Codding, Dilys E. Blum, Gridley McKim-Smith, Cristina Esteras Martín, Nuno Senos, Marjorie Trusted, Adrian Locke, Clara Bargellini, Ilona Katzew and Jorge F. Rivas. Philadelphia, Museum of Art, Sept. – Dec., 2006. The exhibition traveled to Mexico City, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Feb. – May, 2007 and Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, June – Oct., 2007
Sanford, Trent Elwood. The Story of Architecture in Mexico, W.W. Norton & Co., Inc. New York, 1947
TELMEX. Descubre México guide to the Estados de México
Todorov, Tzvetan. The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other, Harper and Row, New York, 1984
Toussaint, Manuel. Colonial Art in Mexico, translated and edited by Elizabeth Wilder Weismann, University of Texas Press, Austin and London, 1967
Vargaslugo, Elisa. México Barroco, Salvat Editores, Mexico City, 1993
Verástique, Bernardino. Michoacán and Eden: Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of Western Mexico, University of Texas Press, Austin, 2000
Vidman, John. The Catholic Church Through the Ages: A History, Paulist Press, New York, 2005
Villa, José Moreno. La Escultura Colonial Méxicana, El Colegio de México impreso y hecho por Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, D.F., 1942
Weissman, Elizabeth Wilder. Mexico in Sculpture: 1521-1821, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1950
Weismann, Elizabeth Wilder. Art and Time in Mexico: Architecture and Sculpture in Colonial Mexico, Harper & Row, New York, 1985
Wheatcroft, Andrew. Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam, Random House Trade Paperback Edition, New York, 2005
Zavala, Silvio. New Viewpoints on The Colonization of America, University of Pennsylvania Press, London, 1943
Zavala, Silvio. The Defense of Human Rights in Latin America: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Unesco, Belgium, 1964