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Of creative energies confidently expressed in the arts in novel mediumsĪnd styles. Self-representation, eventually leading to a new culture born of a mix Indigenous populations created a crisis in identity and Maps that illustrate how the earliest contact between Europeans and Largely unknown works of art in all mediums, including manuscripts and The exhibition presents magnificent, sometimes startling, and Region reflect the seismic changes that took place during the ColonialĮra, and were central to the development of new identities.

Richly diverse art forms subsequently produced throughout this vast People of the Caribbean and concluding with the final moments of theĬolonial Era, a period marked not only by the independence movements andįormation of national states, but by the rise of academic art. The panorama presented by this exhibition is thematic andĬhronological, beginning with Columbus' first encounter with the Portraits, ephemeral decorations-was created for the viceroys and otherĬrown officials who supported civic projects and public pageantry, andįor the merchant class who moved all of these examples of material In addition, secular art-furnishings, luxury goods, Major factor in the dissemination of art throughout Latin America.Įvery church, from magnificent urban cathedrals to modest countryĬhapels, required ritual objects such as silver chalices, candlesticks,Īnd censers, as well as elaborately wrought altarpieces, gilded andĮmbellished with paintings and sculptures depicting divinity, the Virgin Religious houses, and missions in which the indigenous people wereĮducated-although many already were skilled in arts and crafts-was a Movement of missionaries, their establishment of thousands of churches, Papacy, undertook the conversion of native peoples to Christianity. The Spanish and Portuguese monarchs, with the blessing of the Indigenous skills such as feather painting and weavingĬontinued, while European artists traveled to the Americas to ply their

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Africans (both free and enslaved) accompanied even theĮarliest Spanish and Portuguese expeditions and, before the end of theġ6th century, trade with Japan and China via the Manila galleons was Network joining the trade routes among Asia, Europe, and Africa to theĬomplex systems of trade and interaction already in place throughout theĪmericas. Spectacular examples of painting, sculpture, feather work, shell-inlaidįurniture, objects in gold and silver, ceramics, and textiles.Ĭolumbus' world-changing voyage initiated what would be a vast The emergence of national independence movements, and includes 'Tesoros/Treasures/Tesouros: The Arts in Latin America,ġ492-1820' spans the arrival of explorer Christopher Columbus to Peru), and in the Portuguese colony of Brazil has been drawn from publicĪnd private collections throughout the Americas and in Europe. Uruguay, Paraguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, and Spanish viceroyalties of New Spain (which today comprises Mexico and theĬountries of Central America) and Peru (now the nations of Ecuador, Retrieved from Ī PAN-NATIONAL EXHIBITION of some 250 works of art created in the

APA style: Treasured arts from Latin America.

Treasured arts from Latin America.' Retrieved from 2007 Society for the Advancement of Education 29 Sep.

MLA style: 'Treasured arts from Latin America.' The Free Library.