"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World, October 11, 2009-January 3, 2010."

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice

Image and Counter-Reformation in Spain and Spanish America / Alfonso Rodríguez G. de Ceballos -- The holy depicting the holy: social and aesthetic issues / Javier Portús -- The image and its maker: the problem of authorship in relation to miraculous images in Spanish America / Luisa Elena Alcalá -- Images as beings in early modern Spain / William A. Christian, Jr. -- "The authority of sacred paintbrushes": representing medieval sainthood in the early modern period / María Cruz de Carlos Varona -- The theopolitical visualization of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception: intentionality and socialization of images / Jaime Cuadriello -- Delightful adornments and pious recreation: living with images in the seventeenth century / Ronda Kasl -- Catalogue of works.