The ritual this was made for was enacted in fields the Inka owned — in the Chancay lands they had conquered.
Art of the Americas
An introduction to the incredibly diverse art and architecture of colonial Brazil.
Introduction to colonial Brazil
The blending of human and animal traits in this figure shows us that the Chancay people were keen observers of nature.
Chancay Standing Female Figure
This jug is one of the earliest known alkaline-glazed stoneware face vessels made by slaves or their descendants in the Edgefield District of South Carolina.
Cultures and slavery in the American south: ...
Revisiting a frozen sea, memory and science in the 19th century
Frederic Edwin Church, The Iceberg
This ivory sculpture of Jesus traveled between three continents, demonstrating the global flow of materials, objects, and Christianity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Christ Crucified, a Hispano-Philippine ivory
Santiago became an important saint in New Spain, recast to convey Spanish dominance over the Indigenous population in the sixteenth century.
Saintly violence? Santiago on Horseback
Celebrating America's place in the world
Childe Hassam, Horticulture Building, World’s Columbian Exposition, ...
Cotton, oil, and the economics of history
Samuel Colman, Jr., Ships Unloading, New York
In the wake of the Civil War, mending the United States, one stitch at a time.
Lilly Martin Spencer, The Home of the ...
Though at first glance this nude seems plucked from classical antiquity, it actually alludes to modern politics.
Hiram Powers, The Greek Slave
A Jewish family in early New York
Gerardus Duyckinck I (attributed), Six portraits of ...
A founding myth for Pennsylvania and for the United States
Benjamin West, Penn’s Treaty with the Indians
From quills to beads: the bandolier bag
The bandolier bag
Fresh water for a young Philadelphia
Thomas Birch, Fairmount Water Works
The painting that inspired a National Park
Thomas Moran, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Picturing Spanish conquest in an era of U.S. expansion
Peter Frederick Rothermel, De Soto Raising the ...
"We have met the enemy and they are ours." The battle that turned the War of 1812
Thomas Birch, Perry’s Victory on Lake Erie
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.
Engravings in Diego de Valadés’s Rhetorica Christiana
Textiles remained important items after the Spanish conquest in the Viceroyalty of Peru. Churches were even painted with textile murals to endow these spaces with sacredness.