What is it about?
The text intends to establish the links between the scenes painted and the rite of baptism.
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Why is it important?
The paper shows that the images would be there to be, potentially, activated during the liturgical ceremony in order to reveal the efficacy of the sacrament.
Perspectives
This text proposes the potential relationship between gesture, words and paintings, as they could have been in the eighteenth century. In the analysis, we decided to put into dialogue the resonances intended by the Church and the reception by the Indigenous community.
Fernando Guzmán
Universidad Adolfo Ibanez
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This page is a summary of: El rito bautismal y las imágenes pintadas en la iglesia de Curahuara de Carangas, Colonial Latin American Review, January 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/10609164.2019.1585084.
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