Processions for the Dead, the Senses, and Ritual Identity in Colonial Mexico
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Processions for the Dead, the Senses, and Ritual Identity in Colonial Mexico
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If the ear of the musician is like the eye of the painter, that is a great thing … in art one cannot put things into words, because in truth the best of such art (if not all arts) cannot be put into words

—El Greco, unpublished glosses on Daniel Barbaro's commentary on Vitruvius

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