Midterm

Question 1

Answer 1

Emanuel Leutze,

(USA, born in Germany early 1800s - mid/later 1800s)

Storming of the Teocali by Cortez and His Troops

Oil on canvas, 1848

large (7 x 8.25 ft)

Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford

Question 2

Answer 2

José María Velasco

(Mexico, mid 1800s − early 1900s)
Pyramid of the Sun
oil on canvas, ca. 1878

small (11 x 17 in)

Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City

Question 3

Answer 3

Francisco Laso de los Rios,

(Perú, early-ish 1800s - mid-ish 1800s)

El Habitante de la Cordillera,

1855, Oil on canvas,

medium size (4.5 x 2.75 ft)

Metropolitan Municipality, Lima

Question 4

Answer 4

Tarsila do Amaral

(Brazil, late 1800s - late-ish 1900s)

Abaporu, 1928

Oil on canvas, 2.75 x 2.5 ft

Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA)

Question 5

Answer 5

Joaquín Torres- García

(Uruguay, late 1800s - mid 1900s)

Upside-down map

1943

Small, Ink on paper

Torres-Garcia Family Collection, Montevideo

Question 6

Answer 6

Diego Rivera (Mexico, late 1800s - mid 1900s)

Zapatista Landscape

1915

Oil on Canvas

medium size (4.75 x 4.25 ft)

Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City

Question 7

Answer 7

Leandro Izaguirre

(Mexico, mid 1800s – mid 1900s)
The Torture of Cuauhtémoc
Oil on canvas, ca. 1893

Large 9.5 x 15 ft
Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City

Question 8

Answer 8

Luis Montero

(Peru, early/mid 1800s - mid/late 1800s)

The Funeral of the Inca Atahualpa
Oil on canvas, ca. 1867

Very large (11.5 x 17.5 ft)
Museo de Arte de Lima

Question 9

Answer 9

José María Velasco

(Mexico, mid 1800s − early 1900s)

View of the Valley of Mexico from the Hill of Santa Isabel

oil on canvas, ca. 1877

5.25 x 7.5 ft

Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City