This richly illustrated catalog explores how sacred art evolved in early Mexico, adapting to local cultures and traditions across the vast territories of New Spain (1521–1821). Featuring over 60 paintings, sculptures, and engravings, the book examines the role of images in constructing sanctity, from official canonization processes to popular devotion.
Author Cristina Cruz González, Associate Professor of Art History at Oklahoma State University, situates these works within the broader context of Spanish colonial art, highlighting the enduring legacy of artists in New Mexico. The catalog reveals how saints and santos were propagated, celebrated, and venerated, and how their imagery continues to resonate in contemporary devotional practices.
Published in collaboration with the New Mexico Museum of Art, this catalog is both an exhibition record and a rare collectible book for scholars, collectors, and enthusiasts of religious art and Latin American visual culture.
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