A shimmering saint, St. John in featherwork

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Saint John the Evangelist, 17th century, feather mosaic and paper on copper (Collection of Daniel Liebsohn, loaned to Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City)

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Teresa Castelló Yturbide and Manuel Cortina Portilla, The Art of Featherwork in Mexico (Mexico: Fomento Cultural Banamex, A.C., 1993).

Alessandra Russo, Gerhard Wolf, and Diana Fane, eds., Images take flight: Feather art in Mexico and Europe 1400–1700 (Munich: Hirmer, 2015).

Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, “Featherwork,” in Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520–1820, 1st ed. (University of Notre Dame Press, 2021), pp. 115–74.

Cite this page as: Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Beth Harris, "A shimmering saint, St. John in featherwork," in Smarthistory, January 24, 2022, accessed March 25, 2023, https://smarthistory.org/a-shimmering-saint-st-john-in-featherwork/.