Smarthistory – Dr. Ananda Cohen-Aponte

Dr. Ananda Cohen-Aponte

Ananda Cohen-Aponte is Associate Professor of History of Art at Cornell University. She works on the visual culture of colonial Latin America, with special interests in issues of cross-cultural exchange, historicity, identity, and anti-colonial movements. Her recent book, Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between: Murals of the Colonial Andes (University of Texas Press, 2016) explores the intersections between art, politics, religion, and society in mural paintings located in colonial churches across the southern Andes.

Dr. Ananda Cohen-Aponte

Textiles in the Colonial Andes

Tiwanaku, an introduction

The Moche Royal Tombs of Sipán

Paracas textiles, an introduction

The Viceroyalty of Peru, an introduction

“Bad Confession” in Guaman Poma’s The First New Chronicle and Good Government

Nasca Art: Sacred Linearity and Bold Designs

Textiles in the Colonial Andes

Luis de Riaño and Indigenous collaborators, The Paths to Heaven and Hell, Church of San Pedro de Andahuaylillas

Portrait Painting in the Viceroyalty of Peru

Diego Quispe Tito, Last Judgment, 1675

Our Lady of Cocharcas and the Cuzco School of Painting

Introduction to religious art and architecture in early colonial Peru

Introduction to Ancient Andean Art