Art Across Cultures: Americas

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Note: Culture = New Spain/Spanish OR Colonial Brazil/Portuguese

Viceregal New Spain (1521-1821) & Colonial Brazil (1500-1822)

New Spain

Anonymous, Conquest of Tenochtitlan and Mexico City, folding screen (biombo), late 17^th century

Colonial Brazil:

São Sebastião, Castello Hill, Rio de Janeiro, c.1600

Francisco Nunes Soares (architect), São Bento de Olinda (Saint Benedict, at Olinda), exterior, 1760-63

Main Altar, São Bento de Olinda (Saint Benedict, at Olinda), carved and gilded cedar, 1786-89

Retablo

Painted ceiling: Francisco Bezerra

Terms:

Viceroyalty, viceroy

Absolutism

Laws of the Indes, Phillip II of Spain, 1573, Plaza Mayor

Jesuit Order

Renaissance, Portuguese “Plain” Style

Dutch Conquest of Brazil, 1624-54

Baroque Style (Late Baroque = Rococo)

Benedictine Order, St. Benedict

Catholic Mass, Eucharist, Host, Transubstantiation