Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
Professor | University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, UNITED STATES
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi is an art historian specializing in art of pre-Columbian and colonial Latin America, especially that of colonial Peru.
Biography
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi is an art historian specializing in art of autonomous-era and colonial Latin America, especially that of colonial Peru and Bolivia. Her books on sculpture, painting, and textiles focus on the ways in which Indigenous peoples of the Americas contributed to creating new forms of Catholicism. Her latest book, Collective Creativity and Artistic Agency in Colonial Latin America, explores what it meant to be an artist in colonial Latin America. Her new research explores the concept of the secular as it developed in the mining city of Potosí, Bolivia.
Areas of Expertise (2)
Art and History of Ancient and Colonial Latin America
Latin American Studies
Media Appearances (3)
What's Happening: Your 10-day forecast for March 5-14, 2021
The Gainesville Sun online
2021-03-05
Join the UF College of the Arts and author Maya Stanfield-Mazzi online at 6 p.m. Thursday for the launch of “Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520-1820,” published in February 2021 by the University of Notre Dame Press. The book provides the first broad survey of church textiles of Spanish America and demonstrates that, while overlooked, textiles were a vital part of visual culture in the Catholic Church.
An Interview with Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, author of “Clothing the New World Church”
Notre Dame Press online
2021-02-03
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi is an associate professor of art history at the University of Florida. She recently answered our questions about her new book, Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520–1820 (February 15, 2021), published by Notre Dame Press on February 15, 2021. While there are several books on pre-Columbian textiles, Clothing the New World Church is the first study that deals with colonial textile arts. In the book she argues that the visual culture of cloth was an important and previously-unrecognized aspect of church art in the Americas, and she shows how a “silk standard” was established on the basis of priestly preferences for imported woven silks.
TEDxUF holds its first salon-style event of the year
The Independent Florida Alligator online
2019-10-22
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, 47-year-old UF art history professor, was a discussion leader for the first time. She said she enjoyed seeing people unrelated to the university talk with UF students and faculty members.
Articles (2)
The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art
RoutledgeStephen J. Campbell, et. al
2024-01-22
This companion examines the global Renaissance through object-based case studies of artistic production from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe in the early modern period. The international group of contributors take an art historical approach characterized by close analysis of form and meaning as well as function, and a focus on questions of crosscultural dialogue and adaptation.
Weapons and Phantasms: The Painted Cloths of Chachapoyas and Peruvian Independence
Age of RevolutionMaya Stanfield-Mazzi
2022-01-10
In 2021 Peru, hobbled by the world’s highest per capita death rate from COVID-19, observed its bicentennial anniversary of independence from Spain and designated a new president after a fraught election.[1] The teacher and union leader Pedro Castillo became the first campesino or peasant leader of the nation, as well as the first left-wing leader in a generation.
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