This book investigates the Casa de Montejo and considers the role of the buildings Plateresque faēade as a form of visual rhetoric that conveyed ideas about the individual and communal cultural identities in sixteenth-century Yucatįn. C. Cody Barteet analyzes the faēade within the complex colonial world in which it belongs, including in multicultural Yucatįn and the transatlantic world. This contextualization allows for an examination of the architectural rhetoric of the faēade, the design of which visualizes the contestations of autonomy and authority occurring among the colonial peoples.
Introduction;
1. The Casa de Montejo and Mérida;
2. The Plateresque
Faēade and Communal Identity in Spain;
3. The Montejo Faēade and the Position
of Adelantado;
4. Tihó-Mérida and the Casa de Montejo;
5. Gaspar Antonio
Chis Heraldic Imagery and the Casa de Montejo Faēade; Conclusion
C. Cody Barteet is Associate Professor of Art History at The University of Western Ontario, Canada.
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