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The Thoma Foundation's Art of the Spanish Americas collection
Diego Antonio de Landaeta, Portrait of Petronila Méndez
A rare and elaborate child portrait from Venezuela by an Afro-descendant artist.
Virgin of Chiquinquirá
Our Lady of Chiquinquirá is a rare example of a work painted on a plate of lustrous silver.
Juan Pedro López, Our Lady of Guidance
A painting of a miraculous statue in Caracas, Venezuela also has its original frame.
Portraits of Francisca Ramírez de Laredo and Antonio de Ulloa
These portraits of a couple show us what the sitters want us to see about them, and conceal the less glamorous details of their lives.
The Child Mary Spinning
This luxuriously dressed Virgin Mary as a child spinning cloth may have spoken to the rich textile traditions of Indigenous cultures in Peru
The Coronation of the Virgin by the Holy Trinity
The Trinity visualized as triplets was a common subject in 18th-century Peru—and beyond
