Bring the family and print a historic image of Our Lady on a replica medieval press, an activity accompanying the exhibit Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World. Free with admission. Children 16 and under free daily.
Using a Bobcat Press built in the 1970s by Cedar Crest’s Richard Hicks, visitors will get a feel for how colonial artists found images to paint. Palace printers Tom Leech and James Bourland have selected an image of the Virgin investing St. Alphonso with a chasuble. In 1544, it was the first full-page woodcut printed in a book in the Americas by the first printer in Mexico, Juan Pablos. The book was Juan Gerson’s Tripartito del Christianissimo, and the original block was probably carved in Iberia. It was reproduced in a reduced size in Printing in Spanish Colonial America, by Hensley Woodbridge and Lawrence Thomson, 1976. (Palace Press collection).
For an image of the print that will be used, click here.
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