| Note: | L04 |
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| Object Name: | Facade of the monastery church of Huejotzingo | |
| Creation Date: | 16th Century | |
| Culture: | Mexican Colonial | |
| Location: | Monastery of San Miguel of Huejotzingo, Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico | |
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| Image source: | © Dr. Manuel Aguilar | |
| San Miquel de Huejotzingo resembles a walled medieval citadel that follows up the biblical model of the new Jerusalem that would be established after the Second Coming of Christ. It is the Solomon’s Temple of the Jerusalen Indiana and the materialization of the City of God, the metropolitan church of the Millenarian Kingdom of the Franciscans in the New World. The main facade of the huge church is a prime example of Mexican plateresque that combined a depressed ogee multifoil arch of Gothic-Mudejar lineage with Gothic colonettes, a Renaissance choir window and long fluted Corinthian columns. The carving technique is tequitqui that can be appreciated in the flat relief and bevelling of the seven monograms of Christ and in the two esutcheons with the Franciscan Stigmata. In the emblem of the Stigmata, we can appreciate the strong presence of the Indian carving. They are representing the chalchihuatl (precious water) that is the blood. Again we find the parallel between the blood offered to the Sun to make possible the Life of the Universe and the blood of Christ to fulfill the Salvation of human beings. In Fransican emblems of Huejotzingo we find the Codex Style of representing a precious stone (chalchihuitl) from which emanates drops of blood (chalchihuatl). | ||
