American Funeral Rites for Mariana of Austria in the American Viceroyalties, traslatio and fly metaphors

Abstract

The unique and novel situation of Mariana of Austria, who went from being Consort to becoming Queen Regent, the particular circumstances in which Peru and New Spain faced the crisis of the monarchy in 1697, along with the uncertain panorama over the succession, the reign of Charles II and the turn of the century, are the cornerstones of my analysis of the American funeral rites of Mariana of Austria. My objective is not the specific analysis of the iconography of the tombs, but to draw a comparison between the processes of localization and adaptation of the political ritual of death carried out in the two viceroyalties, their traslatio from their central formulation in the metropolis and within a framework of cosmopolitan networks within a global culture.