RELIGIOUS SCULPTURE OF THE CHILOÉ ARCHIPELAGO, FROM THE 17TH TO THE 21ST CENTURY

Despite its central role in religious life of the region, the sculptural tradition of the Southern Chilean Chiloé Archipelago, ranging from the 17th century to the present day, has been vastly understudied. Isidoro Vázquez de Acuña’s 1994 volume Santeria de Chiloe: ensayo y catastro remains the only catalogue of Chilote sculpture. Though the author includes photographs of a vast array of works, he does not attempt to place the sculptures within a chronology, or consider their place within the greater Latin American context. My thesis will place this group of works within a chronological and geographical context that reaches from the 16th century to the present day, connected to the artistic traditions of regions as far afield as Paraguay and Lima. I will first consider the works brought to the Archipelago by religious orders – the Jesuits and Franciscans – as well as influences on artistic style and religious culture throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. I will focus in particular on three works generally considered to be from the 17th and 18th centuries – the Virgin of Loreto at Achao, the Saint Michael at Castro, and the Jesus Nazareno of Caguach – using visual analysis and sifting through generations of primary and secondary sources to determine from where and when these sculptures came. With this investigation as a foundation, I will consider how they inspired vernacular sculptural expression and trace ‘family trees’ of vernacular works based on these precedents. Vernacular artistic traditions are often viewed as derivative and lacking in skill, but Chilote sculptors in fact engaged with a variety of outside influences and experimented with different sculptural styles. I will conclude by considering which aspects of these styles Chilote artists chose to incorporate into their own work, alter or exclude, artistic decisions that shed light on the Archipelago’s religious and cultural fabric.

Protestantism; a study in the direction of religious truth and Christian unity.

"Explanatory index of authors cited," p. [433]-436.

Religious progress /

Mode of access: Internet.

Platform papers : addresses, discussions, and essays on social, moral, and religious subjects.

Mode of access: Internet.

The progress of the intellect : as exemplified in the religious development of the Greeks and Hebrews /

Includes bibliographical references.

The history and antiquities of dissenting churches and meeting houses, in London, Westminster, and Southwark : including the lives of their ministers, from the rise of nonconformity to the present time : with an appendix on the origin, progress, and present state of Christianity in Britain /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The rationale of religious enquiry, or, The question stated of reason, the Bible, and the church; in six lectures /

Inspiration -- Catholic infallibility -- Protestant infallibility -- Rationalism -- Relation of natural religion to Christianity -- Influence of Christianity on morality and civilization.

The removal of the Indians. An article from the American monthly magazine: an examination of an article in the North American review: and an exhibition of the advancement of the southern tribes, in civilization and Christianity ...

Authorship variously attributed to Jeremiah Evarts, to George B. Cheever, and to Convers Francis. cf. Tracy, E. C., Memoir of the life of Jeremiah Evarts, Boston, 1845, p. 431; The American monthly magazine, v. 1, Jan., 1830; Sabin, Bibl. amer., v. 17, no. 69590; and Cheever, G. B., Memorabilia, New York, 1890, p. viii.

A letter from a young woman to a member of the religious Society of Friends, with his reply.

Mode of access: Internet.

The history and antiquities of dissenting churches and meeting houses, in London, Westminster, and Southwark : including the lives of their ministers, from the rise of nonconformity to the present time : with an appendix on the origin, progress, and present state of Christianity in Britain /

On spine: Dissenting churches.

Perils and safe guards of American liberty. Address pronounced July 4, 1828, in the Second Baptist Meeting-House in Boston, at the religious celebration of the anniversary of American independence, by the Baptist churches and societies in Boston.

Printed tan paper covers.

Religious pamphlets

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets on religion.

Religious pamphlets

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets on religion.

The origin and development of religious belief /

pt. I. Heathenism and Mosaism--pt. II. Christianity.