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Viceroyalty of Peru
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
The Trinity visualized as triplets was a common subject in 18th-century Peru—and beyond
The Coronation of the Virgin by the ...
The Churches of Chiloé represent a unique example in Latin America of an outstanding form of ecclesiastical wooden architecture.
Churches of Chiloé
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 ...
Follow the conservation treatment and research of “Emblem of Folly,” a painting from colonial Cuzco. Committed study of these works can help create a better understanding of Latinx cultural identity and history.
Conserving Cuzco School Paintings
The Ovalle map is one the earliest maps of Chile that circulated around Europe, and includes people, plants, and animals to create a vivid sense of the lands controlled by the Spanish Crown.
Alonso de Ovalle, Tabula geographica regni Chile
The arts of colonial Peru are neither fully pre-Columbian nor fully European, but a dynamic combination.
Introduction to the Viceroyalty of Peru
Guaman Poma's “The Bad Confession” image participates in a larger argument about the ability for native Andeans to rule themselves without Spanish intervention.
“Bad Confession” in Guaman Poma’s The First ...
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.
Textiles in the Colonial Andes
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
Cuzco School paintings came into such high demand that they were exported to patrons residing in far-flung cities located in present-day Chile and Argentina, and even Italy.
Our Lady of Cocharcas and the ...
Exploring the beginnings of Spanish missionary activities and spaces in Peru.
Introduction to religious art and architecture in ...
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
Guaman Poma’s hefty epistle detailed the abuses against indigenous peoples; he hoped for it to be printed in Spain.
Guaman Poma and The First New Chronicle ...
The European baroque is reinterpreted with Andean building technology in this mission church on the old Inka road.
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