Arts in the Americas

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Note Nationality=Mexican 

Independence Era Mexico (19^th century): History Painting

Juan Cordero, Columbus Before the Catholic Monarchs, 1850

Rodrigo Gutiérrez, Senate of Tlaxcala, c.1875

Cf.Roman sculptures: Augustus, c.27 BCE and Antinous, c.130 AD

Leandro Izaguirre, Torture of Cuauhtémoc, 1893

Cf. Noreña, Monument to Cuauhtémoc (Detail), c.1878-1887

Terms:

Academy of San Carlos, Mexico City, est.1785

Classical Antiquity (=ancient Greece and Rome), Italian Renaissance, Academy of Rome

Genres of Painting: History Painting, Landscape, Portraiture, Scenes from Everyday Life (“Genre painting”), Still Lifes

Mexicanidad

La Reforma, 1854-1876; President Benito Juarez (1856-1862 and 1871-2); President Porfirio Díaz (1876-1910)

Hernan Cortez

Chicago World’s Fair: Columbian Exposition, 1893