South America
South America
Basics to get you started
Defining “pre-Columbian” and “Mesoamerica”
Andean cultures, an introduction
The Spanish Viceroyalties in the Americas, an introduction
Independence from Spanish rule in South America
Latin American art, an introduction
Paleolithic art, an introduction
The Neolithic revolution
Glossary for pre-Columbian art
Ancient Colombian goldmaking
Moche culture, an introduction
Tiwanaku, an introduction
Nasca art: sacred linearity and bold designs
Nasca ceramics, an introduction
Paracas, an introduction
Paracas textiles, an introduction
Cultural heritage at risk: Peru
Costumbrismo
Early Scientific Exploration in Latin America
The Viceroyalty of Peru, an introduction
Portrait painting in the Viceroyalty of Peru
Early viceregal architecture and art in Colombia
Introduction to colonial Brazil
Textiles in the colonial Andes
The Medici collect the Americas
Defensive saints and angels in the Spanish Americas
The global Baroque, an introduction
The rise and fall of the Avis dynasty in Portugal, an introduction
African religious culture in the Atlantic world
Latin American artistic pilgrimages to Paris
Landscape painting in 19th-century Latin America
The challenge of the nude in 19th-century Latin American painting
How photographs of poverty in the Americas ignited an international battle over propaganda
Modern art and reality
Expression and modern art
Geometric abstraction in South America, an introduction
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
The case for Conceptual art
Performance art, an introduction
Contemporary art, an introduction
The Black Atlantic: identity and nationhood
The Black Atlantic: toppled monuments and hidden histories
The Black Atlantic: afterlives of slavery in contemporary art
What can be done to protect cultural heritage?
Timeline
Nasca, Mantle ("The Paracas Textile"), 100–300 C.E., cotton, camelid fiber, 58–1/4 x 24–1/2" / 148 x 62.2 cm, found south coast, Paracas, Peru (Brooklyn Museum)
Works of Art
Artists
"The author on his way to Lima (self-portrait)," Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (portrait of Tupac Yupanqui, Tenth Inka), 1615 (Royal Danish Library)
Periods, Cultures, Styles
Prehistoric
before 2000 B.C.E.
Paleolithic
before 10,000 B.C.E.
Amazonian
c. 12,000 B.C.E.–today
Kayapó
to today
Neolithic
c. 10,000–2000 B.C.E.
Native Andean
4000 B.C.E. –1534 C.E.
Cupisnique
c. 1800–200 B.C.E.
Chorrera
c. 1300–300 B.C.E.
Mundurukú
to today
Chavín
900–200 B.C.E.
Paracas
c. 700 B.C.E.–200 C.E.
Jama-Coaque
c. 350 B.C.E.–1531 C.E.
Ancient Colombian chiefdoms
c. 200 B.C.E.–1600 C.E.
Calima
c. 200 B.C.E.–400 C.E.
Salinar
c. 200 B.C.E.–200 C.E.
Nasca
c. 100 B.C.E.–800 C.E.
Quimbaya
c. 100 C.E. to 1600 C.E.
Moche
c. 200–900 C.E.
Tiwanaku
c. 200–1100 C.E.
Tairona
c. 200–1600
Wari
c. 500–1000 C.E.
Muisca
c. 600–1600
Sicán
c. 750–1375
Chimú
950–1470
Chancay
c. 1000–1450
Zenú
c. 1000–1500
Inka Empire
c. 1100–1534
Spanish and Portuguese Renaissance
c. 1400–1600
Colonial American
c. 1492–1898
Portuguese Colonial
c. 16th–18th century
Colonial Brazil
1500–1822
Colonial Spanish American
c. 1520–1898
Viceroyalty of New Spain
c. 1520–1821
Viceroyalty of Peru
1542–1824
Cuzco School of Painting
17th–18th century
Viceroyalty of New Granada
c. 1717–1822
Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
c. 1776–1810
Latin American independence movements
1791–today
Early Colombian Republic
1810–86
Empire of Brazil
1822–89
Art Nouveau
c. 1880–1910
Modernisms
c. 1900–1980
Latin American Modernism
1900–1980
International Style
c. 1920–1980
Latin American Constructivism
c. 1920–70
Concrete Art
c. 1950–69
Conceptual art
c. 1960–70 and after
Brutalist
1960s–70s
Late Modernism/Postmodernism
1962–today
Contemporary
1980–today
