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Key Ideas

Key Ideas and History
PowerPoint
Artwork List
Flashcard Images
​Vocabulary

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• Colonial Latin America: mix of indigenous art forms with European materials
• Influences of subject matter and forms from Asia and Africa
• Subject matter does vary: religious, portraits, history, genre scenes
• Resembles art from Spain and southern Europe
• Columbus landed in the Bahamas in 1492 = conquest --> colonization!
• Europe brought disease which wiped out much of the Aztecs and Native Americans
• Children born of Spanish and Native Americans are called mestizos
• Spanish heavily desired gold, silver, crops
• Patronage: Spanish commissioned Native Americans = Catholicism with Native American traditions
• Artists: Many are anonymous, the point was to not have fame and glory

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Artworks

1. Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza
2. Angel with Arquebus
3. Virgin of Guadelupe
4. Portrait of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
5. Screen with Siege of Belgrade (biombos, enconchados)
6. Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo (casta painting, mestizo)

vocabulary

Biombos
Casta paintings
Enconchados
Escudo
​Mestizo