The Child Mary Spinning

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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

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 September 21, 2023, https://smarthistory.org/child-mary-spinning/.