New Spain in America

Key Ideas

• Colonial Latin America: mix of indigenous art forms with European materials
• Influences of subject matter and forms from Asia and Africa
• Subject matter does vary: religious, portraits, history, genre scenes
• Resembles art from Spain and southern Europe
• Columbus landed in the Bahamas in 1492 = conquest --> colonization!
• Europe brought disease which wiped out much of the Aztecs and Native Americans
• Children born of Spanish and Native Americans are called mestizos
• Spanish heavily desired gold, silver, crops
• Patronage: Spanish commissioned Native Americans = Catholicism with Native American traditions
• Artists: Many are anonymous, the point was to not have fame and glory

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Additional Resources

• Khan Academy:  Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza​​

Vocbulary

Biombos
Casta paintings
Enconchados
Escudo
​Mestizo

Artwork List

Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza
Angel with Arquebus
Virgin of Guadelupe
Portrait of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Screen with Siege of Belgrade (biombos, enconchados)
Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo (casta painting, mestizo)

Notecard Images