El mestizaje de las artes en la Semana Santa hispanoamericana y española

Abstract

The arrival of the Spaniards in the New World led to the implantation of religious customs and traditions on American soil, such as the Holy Week processions characteristic of the five hundred based on public discipline. His evolution in Spain towards catechetical processions with the prominence of the sculptural groups was repeated during the seventeenth-nineteenth century in New Spain and in the Viceroyalty of Peru where they were a relevant element in the process of indigenous evangelization. This social, cultural and artistic miscegenation not only occurred in the American territories, since in Spain Spanish-American art will arrive at the public stages of Holy Week with the introduction of light sculpture with corn or coral cane, and later, with aesthetic improvements in the nacre and hawksbill crosses of the Nazarenes that surprisingly varied the aesthetics of the Baroque and Rococo procession.