The first book ever printed by an American author was Rhetorica Christiana by Diego de Valadés, who was born in Mexico to a Spanish conquistador father and an indigenous mother.
Art of the Americas
Find out what happens to classical Renaissance architecture when it arrives in New Spain.
Classical Architecture in Viceregal Mexico
Modern architecture in Mexico and Brazil adapts the ideas of Le Corbusier in surprising and important ways.
International Style architecture in Mexico and Brazil
Latin American artists in the nineteenth century developed interests in painting the local landscape as a way to create a sense of pride in their country’s past, present, and future.
Landscape painting in Nineteenth-Century Latin American
Frida Kahlo painted 55 self-portraits, demonstrating the importance of this genre to her artistic oeuvre.
Frida Kahlo, introduction
Roman mythology, Christian iconography, European painting and sculpture, and indigenous traditions come together in the art of South America soon after the Spanish conquest.
Early Viceregal Architecture and Art in Colombia
“For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it / But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
Luis de Riaño and indigenous collaborators, The ...
Portraits can be so much more than a person's likeness — they can be personal, commemorative and deeply political.
Portrait Painting in the Viceroyalty of Peru
Sinners depicted along the lower register receive an array of bodily tortures; the souls in heaven, by contrast, surround the ascended Christ in an orderly formation.
Diego Quispe Tito, Last Judgment, 1675
Exploring the beginnings of Spanish missionary activities and spaces in Peru.
Introduction to religious art and architecture in ...
Gutiérrez wanted to create art that would change the perception and status of the artist in Mexico.
Coming of Age in Gutiérrez’s Costumbrista painting, ...
What exactly is the surprise that this painting holds in store for us? There are several interpretations.
Picturing Racial and Social Identities in José ...
Daniel Boone, Moses, and the western frontier: creating an American mythology
Envisioning Manifest Destiny
Once there was a color so valuable that emperors and conquistadors coveted it, and so did kings and cardinals. Artists went wild over it. Pirates ransacked ships for it.
The Bug That Had the World Seeing ...
Business or pleasure? Carlton Watkins could photograph both beautifully.
Carleton Watkins, Eagle Creek, Columbia River
What does the music of heaven sound like?
What does the music of heaven sound ...
Bernardo Bitti's painting at the Church of San Pedro in Lima shows that the Renaissance was a global event.
Bernardo Bitti, Coronation of the Virgin
A site of miraculous healing, the sanctuary in Congonhas has been filled with the prayers of pilgrims since the 18th century.
Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Matosinhos of ...
The inhabitants of the Andes developed a stunning visual tradition that lasted over 10,000 years before the Spanish invasion of South America in 1532.
Introduction to Ancient Andean Art
The first public park in Brazil and a major urban planning commission awarded to an artist of African descent.