Art Across Cultures: Americas

Slide list 19

Colonial New Spain, 1520-1820

Indigenous artist from the Convent School of San José de los Naturales, Mass of St.Gregory, feather mosaic, 1539

Rebozo (woman’s shawl) with scenes of Mexico City, silk, c.1790

Luis de Mena, Las Castas -- Scenes of Racial Mixing, 18th century

c.f. Miguel Cabrera, China Cambuja and Loba, 1783

c.f. miraculous original Virgin of Guadalupe

c.f. various 18th century versions of the Virgin of Guadalupe

c.f Yolanda Lopez, Self-Portrait as Virgin of Guadalupe, 1978

Yolanda Lopez, Self-Portrait as Virgin of Guadalupe, 1978 (20th century USA)

Previous work:

Mexico City and Conquest of Mexico, folding screen (biombo)

Terms:

Castas: español, criollo, mestizo, negra, china cambuja

Man of Sorrows, Passion implements, relics

Amantecayotl, Amanteca=feather artist

Manila Galleon

Zocolo, La Alameda, Xochimilco

Virgin of Guadalupe: Tepeyacac Hill, 1531, Juan Diego, Nahuatl, Tonantzin (earth goddess), Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, shrine 1550s