Cristóbal de Villalpando: Mexican Painter of the Baroque

The centerpiece of this exhibit is one of Cristóbal de Villalpando's earliest masterpieces, a painting depicting the biblical accounts of Moses and the Brazen Serpent and the Transfiguration of Jesus that was painted in 1683 for a chapel in Puebla Cathedral.  This nearly thirty-foot-tall canvas has never before been exhibited outside Mexico. The canvas is accompanied by ten addiitonal works, highlighted by the artist's recently discovered Adoration of the Magi and The Holy Name of Mary.