Abstract

CRUZ MEDINA, Juan Pablo. The painting of the holy family. A manual of family relationships in the world of the seventeenth century in Santafe. Mem. Soc. [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.36, pp.100-117. ISSN 0122-5197.

This article is aimed at evaluating the discourse in paintings of the Holy Family made in the seventeenth-century Santa Fe. From the analysis of this set of images it is demonstrated the use of painting by the Catholic Church as a tool to configure an articulated society from families ruled by principles such as piety, chastity and mortification. The analysis is directly related to the problem of building a colonial subject whose physicality is modeled after the images of Christ, the Virgin or the saints.

Keywords : colonial painting; The Holy Family; social control; Santafe; 17th century; colonial society; church; colonial religiosity.

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