Art Across Cultures: Americas

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19^th century Art and Empiricism in Latin America

Escobar y Villaroel, ‘Pasiflora Mollisima,’ c.1800 (Colombia/Ecuador)

Alexander von Humboldt, ‘Chimborao seen from the Tapia Plateau’ from Voyage de Humboldt et de Bonpland, Premiere Partie; Relation Historique: Atlas pittoresque: 'Vues de Cordilleres et monuments des peoples indigenes de l'Amerique', 1810 (Germany)

Frederick Catherwood, Plates from Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatán, 1844 (Britain)

José Agustín Arrieta, El Chinaco y la China, 19^th century (Mexico)

c.f Nebel, China Poblanas

Pedro Lira, The Sick Child, 1880 (Chile)

Previous works:

Cabrera, China Cambuja, 1763

Terms:

Empiricism

Expedición Botánica of Nueva Granada, 1784-1817, Dr. José Celestino Mutis

Typical, type, Costumbrismo: China Poblana (Puebla, Mexico)

Genre painting (Academic Art), Realism

John Stephens (USA, with Catherwood), Incidents of Travel in the Yucatan, 1843