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The Thoma Foundation's Art of the Spanish Americas collection

Juan Pedro López, <em>Our Lady of Guidance</em>
Juan Pedro López, Our Lady of Guidance

A painting of a miraculous statue in Caracas, Venezuela also has its original frame.

Diego Antonio de Landaeta, <em>Portrait of Petronila Méndez</em>
Diego Antonio de Landaeta, Portrait of Petronila Méndez

A rare and elaborate child portrait from Venezuela by an Afro-descendant artist.

Portraits of Francisca Ramírez de Laredo and Antonio de Ulloa
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

<i>The Child Mary Spinning</i>
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

<em>The Coronation of the Virgin by the Holy Trinity</em>
The Coronation of the Virgin by the Holy Trinity

The Trinity visualized as triplets was a common subject in 18th-century Peru—and beyond