| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Taxco de Alarcón, Guerrero, Mexico | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 1748-1758 (creation) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Durán Berruecos, Diego | en_US |
| dc.date | 1748-1758 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-22T16:46:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-01-22T16:46:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1748-1758 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 186177 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 1887 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/93402 | |
| dc.description | Central relief of the Baptism of Christ framed in Baroque and Rococo (Churrigueresque) details; The church of SS Sebastian y Prisca in Taxco is attributed to Diego Durán Berruecos. Built between 1748 and 1758 at the expense of the silver magnate José de la Borda (1700-1778), it represents an early provincial manifestation of the ‘Ultra Baroque’ (Kubler). The pink stone church dominates the town, which is itself elevated above the Mexico-Acapulco road. This effect is further emphasized by the verticality of the design, which derives from the use of a double square system of proportions, in which the height of the tower is twice the overall width of the façade, and the height of the façade panel is twice its own width. The tower shafts are plain to the height of the nave eaves, save for their circular windows, but above this the belfries are thickly adorned with columns and estípites. Paired columns on the main façade are straight at ground-level but twisted at the upper range. The high dome is decorated with polychrome glazed tiles. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 6/21/2009) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | stone | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | architectural exteriors | en_US |
| dc.subject | saints | en_US |
| dc.subject | Eighteenth century | en_US |
| dc.subject | Spanish Colonial | en_US |
| dc.subject | Baroque | en_US |
| dc.subject | Churrigueresque | en_US |
| dc.title | Parroquia de Santa Prisca y San Sebastian | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | SS Sebastian y Prisca | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Parish Church of Saint Prisca and Saint Sebastian | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Templo de Santa Prisca | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 1A2-M-TA-PS-C4 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | Mexican | en_US |
| vra.technique | construction (assembling) carving (processes) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | church | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | attributed to Diego Durán Berruecos (Mexican architect, active ca. 1740-1760) | en_US |
