The Europeans who arrived in the Americas as part of Spain’s colonial project imposed their own preferred styles and media—easel painting and polychrome sculpture in particular—on societies whose artistic traditions had long privileged textiles, ceramics, and metallurgy. The Indigenous artists they trained were expected to adopt these media and to master European-style naturalism and Catholic […]
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“Regional Art and New Interpretations in Viceregal Peru.” Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, vol. 3, no. 4 (October 2021): 1–10.
This collection of essays in the Diálogos Thoma issue, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 3.4, continue to share the research that has generated from the Congreso de Arte Virreinal “El futuro del arte del pasado,” an international symposium held in Lima, Peru in July 2019.
