This token of private devotion after a near-death experience speaks to how smaller communities in Mexico resourcefully made their own religious images
Mexico in the 18th and 19th centuries
A small painting on tin shows a complex image of Saint Francis's hand bleeding into a cup, surrounded by lambs drinking the blood.
Retablo of La Mano Poderosa/The All Powerful ...
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
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
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 America
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 ...
Revolutionary priests and an ex-member of the Spanish military led a charge for independence and equality for some.
Mexican Independence
Inspired by art academies in Europe, Mexico founded its own in 1785, the first in America.
The Academy of San Carlos
Velasco shows us the history of the land, both the natural and the built environments.
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