La desconocida historia de la construcción de la iglesia de San Francisco en Quito

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Susan Webster

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This study presents a new chronology and history of the construction of the Church of San Francisco in Quito, employing unpublished archival documents in order to demonstrate that, counter to the traditional historiography, the present church was not built in the sixteenth but in the seventeenth century. It addresses the people and processes of construction by employing documents, plans and images, investigates questions of authorship, particularly the identities of the designers and builders, and reconsiders the historiographical legacy of the imposing Franciscan church in light of this new documentation.

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Susan Webster, College of William and Mary, Virginia, EE.UU.

Susan Webster, College of William and Mary, Virginia, EE.UU.

Doctora en historia del arte por la Universidad de Texas (Austin, EE.UU.) Catedrática en historia del arte y estudios americanos en el College of William and Mary, Williamsburg (Virginia, EE.UU.) Ha recibido varias becas de investigación, entre ellas, de Guggenheim, Fulbright y National Endowment for the Humanities, para trabajar temas del arte y arquitectura colonial hispanoamericana, sobre todo en el Ecuador. Ha publicado, entre otros estudios, Arquitectura y empresa en el Quito colonial: José Jaime Ortiz, alarife mayor (2002); “The Devil and the Dolorosa: history and legend in Quito’s capilla de Cantuña”, en The Americas 67 (2010); “Art, identity, and the construction of the church of Santo Domingo in Quito”, en Hispanic Research Journal 10, No. 5 (2009); “Masters of the trade: native artisans, guilds, and the construction of colonial Quito”, en Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 68, No. 1 (2009); “Confraternities as patrons of architecture in colonial Quito, Ecuador”, en Christopher Black and Pamela Gravestock edits., Early Modern Confraternities in Europe and the Americas: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2006).