An octopus headdress belongs to an impressive Moche metalworking tradition.
South America
Never underestimate the power of a well-chosen accessory!
Official Portrait of Bishop Luis Francisco Romero
Emeralds and gold to crown the Queen of Heaven
Crown of the Virgin of the Immaculate ...
A rare and elaborate child portrait from Venezuela by an Afro-descendant artist.
Diego Antonio de Landaeta, Portrait of Petronila ...
A painting of a miraculous statue in Caracas, Venezuela also has its original frame.
Juan Pedro López, Our Lady of Guidance
These portraits of a couple show us what the sitters want us to see about them, and conceal the less glamorous details of their lives
Portraits of Francisca Ramírez de Laredo and ...
This luxuriously dressed Virgin Mary as a child spinning cloth may have spoken to the rich textile traditions of Indigenous cultures in Peru
The Child Mary Spinning
Ninety-six Wari feather panels are considered to be among the most significant examples of Andean featherwork yet discovered
Wari feather panels
Ferrez intentionally concealed the brutal and inhumane conditions of slavery in Brazil in his photograph
Marc Ferrez, Slaves at a Coffee Yard ...
The Trinity visualized as triplets was a common subject in 18th-century Peru—and beyond
The Coronation of the Virgin by the ...
Hindu religion, Brazilian customs, and Andean artworks as seen through the eyes of a European colonizer.
Carlos Julião, watercolor manuscript
Chorrera artists developed a sophisticated technology that allowed them to create elaborate vessels and expressive sculptural works.
Chorrera Ceramics from Ecuador
Thousands of brightly painted and beautifully detailed sculptures were produced by the Jama-Coaque culture of modern-day Ecuador.
Jama-Coaque ceramics
Depicting nudes became a way for some nineteenth-century Latin American artists to challenge conventions, paving a way towards modernism.
The challenge of the nude in 19th-century ...
The Churches of Chiloé represent a unique example in Latin America of an outstanding form of ecclesiastical wooden architecture.
Churches of Chiloé
The ruins of São Miguel das Missões in Brazil, and those of San Ignacio Miní, Santa Ana, Nuestra Señora de Loreto and Santa María la Mayor in Argentina are the impressive remains of five Jesuit missions
Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis
The innovative techniques and aesthetic qualities of Nasca polychrome ceramics make them unique in the Andean region.
Nasca ceramics, an introduction
Pérez de Holguín creates an opulent vision of the city of Potosí, disregarding the infamous stories of poverty and exploitation in the mines of the Cerro Rico
Melchor Pérez de Holguín, Entry of the ...
The Church of Our Lady of the Rosary of the Blacks in Ouro Preto is among the most famous of Black brotherhood churches founded in Brazil
Church of Our Lady of the Rosary ...
Why Peruvian fashion favored septum jewelry with spiders
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