The resilience of Mexicans can be seen on the art painted on their place of worships where angels held harps, guitars, and violins in their hands, their Baroque lips smiling, like an image of heaven replete with music and joy, set in iridescent medallions against a blue-green field twisted with gold and crimson filigree.
As Michoacán’s centuries-old chapels undergo restorations, the buildings raise new questions about how architectural conservation should work and whom such projects are really for.