Guadalupan
Print Gallery

  

          

      The space once occupied by the now nonexistent Lorenzo Boturini Library is home to a collection of prints from different eras. For its ease of reproduction and handling, printmaking was an efficient vehicle for the propagation of doctrine and grassroots religious practices.

            In this room we can view prints done on paper from plates etched in copper or other metals (chalcographs), in wood (xylographs) or in stone (lithographs). Realized by Samuel Stradanus in 1615, the very first print depicting the Virgin of Guadalupe surrounded by representations of the eight miracles is one of the works on display here.