Los artífices desconocidos. Un primer acercamiento a la participación de pintores mayas en la elaboración de un conjunto retablístico de la iglesia de Santa Clara de Asís en Dzidzantún, Yucatán.

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Title: Los artífices desconocidos. Un primer acercamiento a la participación de pintores mayas en la elaboración de un conjunto retablístico de la iglesia de Santa Clara de Asís en Dzidzantún, Yucatán. (Spanish).
Alternate Title: The Unknown Artificers. A First Look to the Involvement of Mayan Painters in the Manufacturing of Certain Altarpieces in the Church of Santa Clara de Assis in Dzidzantún, Yucatán. (English)
Authors: PASCACIO GUILLÉN, BERTHA
Source: Estudios de Cultura Maya. Autumn/Winter2025, Vol. 66, p255-279. 25p.
Subjects: MAYAS, INDIGENOUS art, CULTURAL property, MURAL art, RELIGIOUS art, RELIGIOUS institutions
Geographic Terms: YUCATAN (Mexico : State), YUCATAN Peninsula
Abstract (English): At the beginning of the 17th century, a generation of Mayan artisans arose in the Yucatán Peninsula. They attended a school of arts and crafts established by the Franciscans. These Mayans were responsible for settle the first churches with mural paintings and small wooden tabernacles found in Hispanic prints and religious books. With time, their manner of work favored the formation of a local school from emerging indigenous painters whose continue the craft. They reproduced and created new models of art with prehispanic elements employing colors and aesthetic and formal elements used to depict the human figure. These features are present in one of the earliest altarpieces made in the region, located in the Church of Santa Clara de Assis, Dzidzantún. Therefore, this work analyzes the elements of the ancient Maya used in the creation and decoration of these altarpiece set currently only preserved the tempera mural painting in the presbytery area. Aspects intended to provide first insight into the changes and continuities from the learning process in the Franciscan schools and how they adapted to a new model during the colonial times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Abstract (Spanish): A inicios del siglo xvii, en la península de Yucatán surgió una generación de artífices mayas educados en las escuelas de artes y oficios fundadas por los franciscanos, quienes fueron los responsables de poblar las incipientes iglesias con pintura mural y pequeños tabernáculos de madera que seguían los modelos hispanos procedentes de grabados y libros religiosos. Con el paso del tiempo, su forma de trabajar favoreció la conformación de una escuela local que permitió el surgimiento de pintores de origen maya que perpetuaron el oficio, quienes reprodujeron y crearon nuevos modelos con elementos provenientes del arte precolombino, tales como el uso de colores, elementos estéticos y formales utilizados principalmente para representar la figura humana. Estos aspectos quedaron plasmados en uno de los primeros conjuntos retablísticos realizados en la región, el cual se encuentra en la iglesia de Santa Clara de Asís, Dzidzantún. Por tanto, el presente trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar los elementos de origen maya precolombino que fueron retomados en la elaboración y ornamentación de dicho conjunto retablístico --que en la actualidad sólo conserva la pintura mural al temple en el área del presbiterio--, con la finalidad de tener un primer acercamiento a los cambios y continuidades que conllevó el aprendizaje obtenido en las escuelas franciscanas y la manera cómo adaptaron los nuevos modelos durante el virreinato. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:At the beginning of the 17th century, a generation of Mayan artisans arose in the Yucatán Peninsula. They attended a school of arts and crafts established by the Franciscans. These Mayans were responsible for settle the first churches with mural paintings and small wooden tabernacles found in Hispanic prints and religious books. With time, their manner of work favored the formation of a local school from emerging indigenous painters whose continue the craft. They reproduced and created new models of art with prehispanic elements employing colors and aesthetic and formal elements used to depict the human figure. These features are present in one of the earliest altarpieces made in the region, located in the Church of Santa Clara de Assis, Dzidzantún. Therefore, this work analyzes the elements of the ancient Maya used in the creation and decoration of these altarpiece set currently only preserved the tempera mural painting in the presbytery area. Aspects intended to provide first insight into the changes and continuities from the learning process in the Franciscan schools and how they adapted to a new model during the colonial times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:01852574
DOI:10.19130/iifl.ecm.66.2025/fall-wint/1479