Viceroyalty of New Spain
A Spanish colony covering modern Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean; it was administered through Mexico City from the 16th–19th centuries.
Viceroyalty of New Spain
A Spanish colony covering modern Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean; it was administered through Mexico City from the 16th–19th centuries.
Basics to get you started
New Spain, an introduction
Mission churches as theaters of conversion in New Spain
The Medici collect the Americas
The bug that had the world seeing red
Classical Architecture in Viceregal Mexico
Elite secular art in New Spain
Prints and Printmakers in Colonial New Spain
Hispaniola’s early colonial art, an introduction
Defensive saints and angels in the Spanish Americas
Mexican Independence
The Academy of San Carlos
The global Baroque, an introduction
The Council of Trent and the call to reform art
Painting Mexica (Aztec) history
Works of Art
Artists
“Burning of Idols,” drawn by an unidentified Indigenous artist, to accompany Diego Muñoz Camargo, Description of the City and Province of Tlaxcala, c. 1581–84 (Ms. Hunter 242, fol. 242r, Glasgow University Library, Scotland)
