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The Art of Painting in Colonial Quito / El arte de la pintura en Quito colonial. Edited by Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt; organized by Judy de Bustamante. [Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts Series, Vol. 6.] (Philadelphia: St. Joseph's University Press. 2012. Pp. xiv, 223. S75.00. ISBN 978-0-91610169-5.)
This is a remarkable publication, and yet another example of the contributions of the St. Joseph's University Press to studies of important yet little known Latin American visual materials. In this handsome volume, a selection of more than eighty paintings from late-sixteenth- to early-nineteenth-century Quito are presented in excellent reproductions, with an informative historical introduction by Carmen Fernández Salvador and explanatory texts in both English and Spanish. A bibliography and an index of proper names complete the book. The general idea of the editor, Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt, and the organizer, Judy de...