Capitulo 4: El arte de la palabra: las obras de arte de la Orden de Predicadores como medio de evangelización en el Nuevo Reino de Granada

Abstract

This chapter deals with the different themes represented in the colonial works of art belonging to the Order of Preachers, which were used as a medium of art. belonging to the Order of Preachers, which were used as a means of evangelization and as an instrument to reinforce or maintain Christian evangelization and as an instrument to reinforce or maintain the Christian precepts of the Catholic faith in the population of the Christian precepts of the Catholic faith in the population of Neogranadina. It is assumed that these works were mostly hybrid artistic expressions. hybrid artistic expressions, each of them resorting to multiple techniques of elaboration and incorporating varied techniques and incorporating varied systems of symbols in their composition1 . .