Barron's: Chapter 18 - Art of New Spain: Spanish Colonies in the Americas

Question 1

Time Period

Answer 1

• c. 1500-1820

Question 2

Essential Knowledge

Answer 2

• In colonial Latin America there is a mixing of indigenous art forms with European formulas and materials
• there is also an influence from Asia and Africa
• in addition to religious subjects found in Europe at the time, there are other types of paintings, including portraits, history paintings, and genre scenes
• Latin American colonial art closely aligns with art production from Spain and the rest of Southern Europe

Question 3

Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza

Answer 3

• c. 1542
• pigment on paper
• Bodleian Library, Oxford University
• named after Antonio de Mendoza
• Spanish Art
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: National Symbols
  
  • Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
  • Golden Stool
  • Quick-to-See-Smith, Trade

Question 4

Angel with Arquebus, Aisel Timor Dei

Answer 4

• Master of Calamarca
• c. 1680
• oil on canvas
• National Art Museum, La Paz, Bolivia
• Spanish Art
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Guardian Figures
  
  • Nio guardian figure
  • Lamassu
  • Jayvaraman VII as Buddha

Question 5

Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and Hunting Scenes

Answer 5

• Circle of the Gonzalez
• 1697-1701
• tempera and resin on wood inlaid with mother-of-pearl
• Brooklyn Museum, New York
• Spanish Art

Question 6

Virgin of Guadelupe

Answer 6

• Miguel Gonzalez
• 1698
• oil on canvas on wood wit mother-of-pearl
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
• Spanish Art
• Cross-Cultural Connections: Images of Mary
  
  • Notre Dame de la Belle Verriere
  • Lippi, Madonna and Child with Two Angels
  • Virgin and Child between Saints Theodore and George

Question 7

Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo

Answer 7

• Attributed to Juan Rodriguez
• oil on canvas
• Private Collection, London
• Spanish Art
• Cross-Cultural Connections: Meeting of Cultures
  
  • Quick-to-See-Smith, Trade
  • Bandolier Bag
  • Bichitr, Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Sheikh to Kings

Question 8

Portrait of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Answer 8

• Miguel Cabrera
• 1750
• oil on canvas
• Spanish Art
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Portraits
  
  • Mblo
  • Sin Sukju
  • Smith, Lying with the Wolf

Question 9

Biombos

Answer 9

• folding free-standing screens

Question 10

Casta Paintings

Answer 10

• paintings from New Spain showing people of mixed races

Question 11

Enconchados

Answer 11

• shell-inlay paintings; tiny fragments of mother-of-pearl placed onto a wooden support and canvas and covered with a yellowish tint and thin glazes of paint

Question 12

Escudo

Answer 12

• a framed painting worn below the neck in a colonial Spanish painting

Question 13

Mestizo

Answer 13

• someone of mixed European and Native American descent