Abstract

RODRIGUEZ SANCHEZ, NATHALY. About eyes that still closed allow to see The symbolic representation of the female monasticism of strict rules in the New Spain Baroque and its honor supplies. Front. hist. [online]. 2021, vol.26, n.1, pp.92-114.  Epub Jan 01, 2021. ISSN 2027-4688.  https://doi.org/10.22380/20274688.1295.

The text seeks to decode the meaning of the closed eyes used in New Spain portraits of religious women who professed votes under strict orders, especially in the 18th century. With this objective we glimpse the female spirituality Catholicism had during the Baroque period. We explore the monastic culture of the discalced nuns and the reading of them as perfect spiritual life beings. In the center of a stratified society such as the colonial, this concept dispensed inputs for the family honour. Upon this base we locate the paradox where these nuns were allocated by the closed eyes portraits: dead to the world but reproductive of their own social order.

Keywords : religious art; female monasticism; honor; gender.

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