The Child Mary Spinning

by Dr. Kathryn Santner and Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank

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The Child Mary Spinning, 18th century, oil on canvas, Cusco, Peru, 36 x 28 inches (Collection of Carl & Marilynn Thoma)

 

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Additional resources

The Child Mary Spinning on the Thoma Foundation’s website

The Thoma Foundation’s Art of the Spanish Americas collection

Learn more about the Cusco School of Painting

Gaby Greenlee, “Threshold objects: viewing textiles in a colonial Andean painting,” World Art 7, no. 1 (2017): pp. 37–63

Sabena Kull, “Spinning a Common Thread: Popular Paintings of the Child Virgin in 17th–18th Century Seville and Peru,” Athanor XXXII (2014): pp. 25–35

Museo Pedro de Osma (Lima: Fundación Pedro de Osma G., 1995)

Los siglos del oro en los virreinatos de América, 1550–1700 (Madrid: Sociedad Estatal para la Conmemoración de los Centenarios de Felipe II y Carlos V, 1999)

Cite this page as: Dr. Kathryn Santner and Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank, "The Child Mary Spinning," in Smarthistory, December 21, 2021, accessed March 28, 2023, https://smarthistory.org/child-mary-spinning/.

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