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South America
Basics to get you started
Ancient Colombian goldmaking
Moche culture, an introduction
Independence from Spanish rule in South America
Costumbrismo
Early Scientific Exploration in Latin America
The Viceroyalty of Peru, an introduction
Tiwanaku, an introduction
The challenge of the nude in 19th-century Latin American painting
Nasca Art: Sacred Linearity and Bold Designs
Paracas textiles, an introduction
Latin American artistic pilgrimages to Paris
Introduction to colonial Brazil
Paracas, an introduction
Nasca ceramics, an introduction
Early Viceregal Architecture and Art in Colombia
International Style architecture in Mexico and Brazil
The origins of modern art in São Paulo, an introduction
Breaking the Frame – the Concrete Art Movement
Painting in an Industrial Age – the Concrete Art Movement
The Challenge of a Straight Line – the Concrete Art Movement
Textiles in the Colonial Andes
The Medici collect the Americas
Geometric Abstraction in South America, an introduction
An interview with Alfredo Jaar
Teresita Fernández on Precolumbian gold
Latin American artists learning in Paris
The Black Atlantic: Identity and Nationhood
The Black Atlantic: Toppled Monuments and Hidden Histories
The Black Atlantic: Afterlives of Slavery in Contemporary Art
Doris Salcedo: Third World Identity
Cultural heritage at risk: Peru
Modern art and reality
Paleolithic art, an introduction
The Neolithic revolution
The Case for Conceptual Art
Andean cultures, an introduction
Glossary for pre-Columbian art
Contemporary art, an introduction
New Spain, an introduction
Maria Sibylla Merian, an introduction
Landscape Painting in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
African religious culture in the Atlantic world
Defensive saints and angels in the Spanish Americas
How Photographs of Poverty in the Americas Ignited an International Battle over Propaganda
Elite secular art in New Spain
The Rise and Fall of the Avis Dynasty in Portugal, an introduction
Expression and modern art
Luchita Hurtado’s body of work
Portrait Painting in the Viceroyalty of Peru
What can be done to protect cultural heritage?
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Native Andean
4000 B.C.E. –1534 C.E.
Kayapó
to today
Tairona
c. 200–1600
Mundurukú
to today
Amazonian
c. 12,000 B.C.E.–today
Cupisnique
c. 1800–200 B.C.E.
Chorrera
c. 1300–300 B.C.E.
Chavín
900–200 B.C.E.
Paracas
c. 700 B.C.E.–200 C.E.
Ancient Colombian chiefdoms
c. 200 B.C.E.–1600 C.E.
Quimbaya
c. 100 C.E. to 1600 C.E.
Jama-Coaque
c. 350 B.C.E.–1531 C.E.
Salinar
c. 200 B.C.E.–200 C.E.
Nasca
c. 100 B.C.E.–800 C.E.
Moche
c. 200–900 C.E.
Tiwanaku
c. 200–1100 C.E.
Wari
c. 500–1000 C.E.
Muisca
c. 600–1600
Sicán
c. 750–1375
Chimú
950–1470
Chancay
c. 1000–1450
Inka Empire
c. 1100–1534
Spanish and Portuguese Renaissance
c. 1400–1600
Colonial Spanish American
c. 1520–1898
Colonial American
c. 1492–1898
Colonial Brazil
1500–1822
Viceroyalty of Peru
1542–1824
Viceroyalty of New Granada
c. 1717–1822
Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
c. 1776–1810
Latin American Modernism
1900–1980
Latin American Constructivism
c. 1920–70
Viceroyalty of New Spain
c. 1520–1821
Conceptual art
c. 1960–70 and after
Cuzco School of Painting
17th–18th century
Portuguese Colonial
c. 16th–18th century
Early Colombian Republic
1810–86
Empire of Brazil
1822–89
Art Nouveau
c. 1880–1910
Concrete Art
c. 1950–69
Latin American independence movements
1791–today
Brutalist
1960s–70s
Calima
c. 200 B.C.E.–400 C.E.
Zenú
c. 1000–1500
Prehistoric
before 2000 B.C.E.
Paleolithic
before 10,000 B.C.E.
Neolithic
c. 10,000–2000 B.C.E.
Postcolonial
1776–the present
Modernisms
c. 1900–1980
International Style
c. 1920–1980
Late Modernism/Postmodernism
1962–today
Contemporary
1980–today
