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Dr. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford

About Dr. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford

Dr. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford, a specialist in the art of colonial Latin America, received her Ph.D. from The City University of New York. She is now an assistant professor of art history at Muhlenberg College where she teaches courses in Renaissance, Baroque, and Latin American art.

Codex Azcatitlan, c. 1530, 21 x 28 cm (Bibliothèque nationale de France) — Indigenous artists in Mexico portrays the first images of Black Africans in the Americas.

Images of Africans in the Codex Telleriano ...

by Dr. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford

From a live webinar: Dr. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford on Casta paintings

From a live webinar: Dr. Elena FitzPatrick ...

by Dr. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford

Atrial Cross, San Agustín de Acolman (photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) — The convento atrium was a place for preaching. This cross taught new converts about Christianity.

Atrial Cross at Acolman

by Dr. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford

Mexico City side, Biombo with the Conquest of Mexico and View of Mexico City, New Spain, late 17th century (Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City) — This screen offers an idealized bird’s eye view of Mexico City on one side, and depicts the Conquest on the other.

Biombo with the Conquest of Mexico and ...

by Dr. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford

The convento atrium was a place for preaching. This cross taught new converts about Christianity.

Atrial Cross at Acolman

by Dr. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford

juarez casta grid — Casta paintings were colonial Mexico’s version of 23andMe—but come from a place of social and racial anxiety.

Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo, attributed ...

by Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford