Colonial Americas

[Viceroyalty of New Spain, c. 1541-1542. Ink and color on paper.]

Recommended reading(s)

Mary Ellen Miller, The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec, London: Thames and Hudson, 2012.

Frances Berdan and Patricia R. Anawalt, The Essential Codex Mendoza, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997.  Worldcat

Richard Kagan, Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493-1793, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. Worldcat

Elizabeth Hill Boone, “Maps of Territory, History, and Community in Aztec Mexico,” Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use, G. Malcolm Lewis, ed., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998, 111-134. Worldcat

[Master of Calamarca (La Paz School). c. 17th century. Oil on canvas.]

Recommended reading(s)

Donahue-Wallace, Kelly. “Religious Art, 1600-1785,” Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. Worldcat

[Surveys the art and architecture created in the Spanish Viceroyalties of New Spain, Peru, New Granada, and La Plata from the time of the conquest to the independence era.] 

Herzberg, Julia P. “Angels with Guns: Image and Interpretation,” Gloria in Excelsis: The Virgin and Angels in Viceregal Painting of Peru and Bolivia, Barbara Duncan, ed. New York: Center for Inter-American Relations, 1986. Worldcat

Goodman, Eleanor. “Portraits of Empire: Notes on Angels and Archangels in the Spanish World,” Art in Spain and the Hispanic World: Essays in Honor of Jonathan Brown, Sarah Schroth, ed. London: Pal Holberton, 2010. Worldcat 

Marshall, Peter and Alexandra Walsham. Angels in the Early Modern World. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Worldcat

Mujica Pinilla, Ramón. “Angels and Demons in the Conquest of Peru,” Angels, Demons and the New World, eds. Fernando Cervantes and Andrew Redden. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Worldcat

[Circle of the González Family. c. 1697–1701. Tempera and resin on wood, shell inlay.]

Recommended reading(s)

Aste, Richard, ed. Behind Closed Doors: Art in the Spanish American Home, 1492-1898. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, 2013. Worldcat

Editorial Staff, “Brooklyn Museum Acquires Rare Folding Screen,” New York History Blog. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, 2012. Accessed April 23, 2015. Worldcat

“Collections: European Art: Folding Screen with the Siege of Belgrade (front) and Hunting Scene (reverse),” Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum. Accessed April 23, 2015. Worldcat

[Miguel Gonzalez c. 1698. Based on original Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico City. 16th century. Oil on canvas on wood, inlaid with mother-of-pearl.]

Recommended reading(s)

Katzew, Ilona. “The Virgin of Guadalupe (Virgen de Guadalupe),” LACMA, 2010. Accessed April 23, 2015.

Favrot Peterson, Jeanette. “The Virgin of Guadalupe: Symbol of Conquest or Liberation?” Art Journal 51: 4 (Winter 1992), 39-47. Article

[Attributed to Juan Rodriguez Juarez. 1715. Oil on canvas.]

Recommended reading(s)

Katzew, Ilona. Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Worldcat

Carrera, Magali M. Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. Worldcat