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Church of Santa Prisca de Taxco, the Glossary

The Parroquia de Santa Prisca y San Sebastían, commonly known as the Church of Santa Prisca, is a colonial monument located in the city of Taxco de Alarcón, in the southern state of Guerrero, Mexico, built between 1751 and 1759.^[1]

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Altarpiece

An altarpiece is an work of art in painting, sculpture or relief representing a religious subject made for placing at the back of or behind the altar of a Christian church.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Churrigueresque

Churrigueresque (Spanish: Churrigueresco), also but less commonly "Ultra Baroque", refers to a Spanish Baroque style of elaborate sculptural architectural ornament which emerged as a manner of stucco decoration in Spain in the late 17th century and was used until about 1750, marked by extreme, expressive and florid decorative detailing, normally found above the entrance on the main façade of a building.

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Guerrero

Guerrero, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guerrero (Estado Libre y Soberano de Guerrero), is one of the 32 states that comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Immaculate Conception

The Immaculate Conception is the belief that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception.

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Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia

The Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH, National Institute of Anthropology and History) is a Mexican federal government bureau established in 1939 to guarantee the research, preservation, protection, and promotion of the prehistoric, archaeological, anthropological, historical, and paleontological heritage of Mexico.

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José de la Borda

José de la Borda (Joseph de Laborde in French; c. 1700 – May 30, 1778) was a Spaniard who migrated to New Spain in the 18th century, amassing a great fortune in mines in Taxco and Zacatecas in Mexico.

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Leslie Bethell

Leslie Michael Bethell"".

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Miguel Cabrera (painter)

Miguel Mateo Maldonado y Cabrera (1695–1768) was a Mestizo painter born in Oaxaca but moved to Mexico City, the capital of Viceroyalty of New Spain.

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New Spain

New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de Nueva España; Nahuatl: Yankwik Kaxtillan Birreiyotl), originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain.

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New Spanish Baroque

New Spanish Baroque, also known as Mexican Baroque, refers to Baroque art in the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

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Our Lady of Guadalupe

Our Lady of Guadalupe (Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe), also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe (Virgen de Guadalupe), is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus associated with a series of five Marian apparitions to a Mexican peasant named Juan Diego and his uncle, Juan Bernardino, which are believed to have occurred in December 1531, when the Mexican territories were under the Spanish Empire.

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Our Lady of the Rosary

Our Lady of the Rosary (Beatae Mariae Virginis a Rosario), also known as Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, is a Marian title.

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Rib vault

A rib vault or ribbed vault is an architectural feature for covering a wide space, such as a church nave, composed of a framework of crossed or diagonal arched ribs.

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Royal Academy of History

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Saint Prisca

Prisca was a young Roman woman allegedly tortured and executed for her Christian faith.

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Saint Sebastian

Sebastian (Sebastianus) was an early Christian saint and martyr.

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San Luis Potosí (city)

San Luis Potosí, commonly referred to as San Luis, or by its initials SLP (Otomi), is the capital and the most populous city of the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí.

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Silhouette

A silhouette is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject.

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Talavera pottery

Talavera pottery (Spanish: Talavera poblana) is a Mexican and Spanish pottery tradition from Talavera de la Reina, in Spain.

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Taxco

Taxco de Alarcón (usually referred to as simply Taxco) is a small city and administrative center of Taxco de Alarcón Municipality located in the Mexican state of Guerrero.

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Transept

A transept (with two semitransepts) is a transverse part of any building, which lies across the main body of the building.

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Universidad Iberoamericana

The Ibero-American University (Universidad Iberoamericana), also referred to by its acronym UIA but commonly known as Ibero or La Ibero, is a private, Catholic, Mexican higher education institution, sponsored by the Mexican province of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Santa_Prisca_de_Taxco

Also known as Santa Prisca Church (Taxco), Santa Prisca de Taxco.