After Columbus landed on Hispaniola in 1492, items from the Americas were shipped to Europe where they were perceived as exotic items of wonder and fascination.
Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank
After Columbus landed on Hispaniola in 1492, items from the Americas were shipped to Europe where they were perceived as exotic items of wonder and fascination.
The Medici collect the Americas
After Columbus landed on Hispaniola in 1492, items from the Americas were shipped to Europe where they were perceived as exotic items of wonder and fascination.
The Medici collect the Americas
Brilliant golden brocades. Psuedo-Arabic. Turbans. Leopards and lions. The Adoration of the Magi speaks to the global flow of goods at this time.
Gentile da Fabriano, Adoration of the Magi ...
De Bry's images of the Americas affirm and assert a sense of European superiority.
Inventing “America”: Theodore de Bry’s Collected travels ...
De Bry's images of the Americas affirm and assert a sense of European superiority.
Inventing “America” for Europe: Theodore de Bry
De Bry's images of the Americas affirm and assert a sense of European superiority.
Inventing “America,” The Engravings of Theodore de ...
Must all renaissance art history trumpet the achievements of famed artists such as Masaccio, Leonardo and Van Eyck? Can we center other narratives?
Expanding the Renaissance: a new Smarthistory initiative
Too many assumptions persist about Native American arts and cultures—start here to disentangle fact from fiction.
Terms and Issues in Native American Art
“Native American” is a broad term encompassing many diverse groups.
About geography and chronological periods in Native ...
This mesa in New Mexico is believed to hold one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the US.
Early colonialism in the Southwest: the mission ...
The Yup’ik peoples, in one of the world’s coldest climates, made these ceremonial masks during the long winters.
Embodying the forces of nature: the North ...
Located in a high desert, Chaco’s residents dedicated much of their energy to controlling water for crops.
Chaco Canyon: urban center of the Ancestral ...
Remarkable structures in the American Southwest were home to cliff-dwelling farmers until around 1300.
Mesa Verde: carving a home from the ...
The artist used Spanish coins as models for the coats of arms woven into this basket in California, then New Spain.
When California was Spanish: Native Americans in ...
Both Europe and the Americas were forever changed by Columbus’ accidental landing in the Caribbean in 1492.
Introduction to the Spanish Viceroyalties in the ...
Japanese objects came through Mexico on their way to Spain, and had a lasting impact on the arts of the New World.
Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and ...
Stretching from Europe to the Philippines, the Spanish Empire amassed great wealth—and spent lavishly on art.
The Renaissance in Spain
This multimedia architectural altarpiece took two decades to complete, and required teams of workers in many media.
Jerónimo de Balbás, Altar of the Kings (Altar ...
Why are these murals in the cloister of Acolman painted in only black and white?