An 18th-century painting from New Spain visualizes Christ's suffering in New Spain
Location: Museo Nacional de Arte
Vilar's sculpture of Tlahuicole draws on the style of Neoclassicism to show the heroic Tlaxcalan warrior Tlahuicole who battled the Aztecs
Manuel Vilar, Tlahuicole
An enormous cactus in the Mexican landscape is captured in amazing detail by the painter José María Velasco in teh 19th century
José María Velasco, The Candelabrum
Francisco Goitia's image of universal suffering confronts us directly
Francisco Goitia, Tata Jesucristo
Parra uses a 16th-century friar to comment on 19th-century events, as artists began to make a new art for a new nation.
Félix Parra, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas
What does the music of heaven sound like?
What does the music of heaven sound ...
A continuous narrative, this shows three different parts of the story, each in a different part of the landscape.
Baltasar de Echave Ibía, The Hermits
Cabrera fancied himself the Michelangelo of Mexico, but chose to borrow the format and iconography of Rubens.
Miguel Cabrera, Virgin of the Apocalypse
Velasco shows us the history of the land, both the natural and the built environments.
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