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