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Basilica of
the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico, D.F., 16th Century
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Archive by John Reed
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Performing Colonialism,
Fall
2000
The Virgin of
Guadalupe
A Visual Exploration
"The story of the apparitions in 1531, just ten years after the Aztec
capital at Tenochtitlan fell to Cortes, is rich in providential possibilities--a
dark-complected Virgin Mary appears to a lowly Indian at Tepeyac, the sacred
place of a pre-Columbian mother goddess, leaving her beautiful image on
the Indian's cloak<...>She combines the Indian past with the Spanish
present to make something new, a proto-Mexican Indian madonna who will
gradually be accepted as well by American Spaniards and mestizos as their
own, thus forming the spiritual basis of a national independence movement
in the early 19th century." -Taylor,
William. “The Virgin of Guadalupe in New Spain" p 9.
This site is a compilation of representations of the Virgin of Guadalupe,
a symbol that may represent the divine, national or racial independence,
oppression, or syncretism .
Background
Related
Images
Precursors &
Early Images
17th Century
18th Century
Apariciones de la Virgen de Guadalupe
(Part 1; Part II), 18th
Century.
Coronation
of the Virgin of Guadalupe with Santa Ana and San Joaquin, 18th Century
Saint Michael
with Guadalupan Banner, 18th Century
Our Lady
of Guadalupe with personifications of America and Europe, Four Apparitions,
and the Emblem of Mexico, 18th Century
Virgen de
Guadalupe con Reyes y Caciques, c. 1740
Verdadero
Retrato del Venerable Juan Diego, 1751
Imagen de
la Virgen de Guadalupe con Cuatro Apariciones, 1751
Virgin of
Guadalupe with Four Apparitions and View of Tepeyac, 1760
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