Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
Professor
- Gainesville FL UNITED STATES
- College of the Arts
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi is an art historian specializing in art of pre-Columbian and colonial Latin America, especially that of colonial Peru.
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Maya Stanfield-Mazzi is an art historian specializing in art of pre-Columbian and colonial Latin America, especially that of colonial Peru. She focuses on the ways in which Indigenous peoples of the Americas contributed to creating new forms of Catholicism. Her second book, forthcoming with the University of Notre Dame press, is entitled Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520–1820.
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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.
