{"id":595,"date":"2024-05-27T23:52:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T19:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dreamy.tours\/?p=4686"},"modified":"2025-07-08T18:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T23:26:26","slug":"american-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreamy.tours\/en\/blog\/american-renaissance\/","title":{"rendered":"American Renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the American Renaissance, Renaissance ornamentation is\nmixed with themes inspired by the indigenous decorative agenda. There are two\nmain centers: Mexico and Peru. In both, the religious orders will be the ones\nwho will introduce the Renaissance forms and, at the same time, who will create\nin Mexico an original type of construction: the church preceded by a huge\natrium, for catechesis, with a chapel open to it, given the material\nimpossibility of that all the Indians enter the church; in the atrium was the\n“posa”, a kind of humble place for teaching. Some churches have a\nwalkway for their defense, such as Tepeaca, with two walkways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main examples of these convents in Mexico are those of\nTeposcolula, with a magnificent open chapel; Cholula, Huejotzingo, San Agust\u00edn\nAcolm\u00e1n, with a magnificent Plateresque fa\u00e7ade, which has its echo in\nYuririap\u00fandaro, and that of Actop\u00e1n, among others. Among the civil\nconstructions, the most important building is the Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s palace in\nCuernavaca and the magnificent facade of the Montejo house in M\u00e9rida de\nYucat\u00e1n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the second half of the century, the great cathedrals were\nbuilt, like the one in Mexico, following its model in the Puebla cathedral. The\none in Guadalajara is inspired by the Granada model of Diego de Silo\u00e9 and the\none in P\u00e9tzcuaro (Michoac\u00e1n) presented a very original plant based on a\npentagon. The cathedrals of M\u00e9rida and Oaxaca are also from this period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Peru, the Mudejar influence is evident on the roofs, due\nto the use of Mudejar-type alfarjes, mainly due to the frequency of\nearthquakes, which have destroyed most of the buildings from this period. The\ncathedrals of Lima and Cuzco are characteristic of the second half of the\ncentury, in which Francisco Becerra, who had previously worked in Puebla\n(Mexico) and Quito, intervened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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