Botero (6)


Source: Botero; Paintings and Drawings (New York, 2007), fig. 85.
Image: Botero, "Bishop", 1989 (oil on canvas).
Humanities questions: Since the title indicates that the artist is depicting a bishop, what aspects of a bishop does he feature? What religion does this bishop supposedly belong to? What is the relationship between this twentieth-century depiction of a Latin American bishop and the bishops we saw earlier in HUM 2461 in the material on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz? What is the relationship between Botero's painting of a bishop and the portrait of a bishop we saw still earlier in HUM 2461, Bartolomé de Las Casas?