Panoayán #5


Source: Photographs by WTL© (left, c. 1990; right, 2009) on site at Panoayán, in the inner patio (courtyard) of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz museum. Roughly speaking, here you, despite the views from opposite angles—it had to do with the angle of the sun when each photo was taken; sorry about the bad quality of the new photo—see the courtyard before restoration and its modern condition.
Comment: Here's the gracious interior patio of Panoayán's main hacienda residence, where Sor Juana live during her childhood years from 1651 to 1656. Here she taught herself to read by secretly devouring the books in her grandfather's moderately large library; that is, of course, large for that time. Notice the Spanish style hacienda architecture and layout. In the photo on the left you can make out part of the hacienda's chapel across the patio.
Humanities question: Using the context of Sor Juana's life (see: <= Sor Juana Notes), evaluate the kind of influence this environment possibly had on Juana Inés the person and the intellectual.