This class examines the history of Latin America from 1492 until the early nineteenth century ... the challenges of maintaining a colonial government, and Latin American independence.

Dana Leibsohn’s current research taps the insights of anthropology and art history, focusing on both indigenous visual culture in colonial Latin America and trans-Pacific trade in the early modern ...

San Miguel de Allende, Mexico-- The April issue of ArtNews magazine has a good story on the rising interest in Colonial art of Latin America during the past dozen or more years, including at ...

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offers a retelling of the European colonisation of Latin America through the eyes of contemporary artists. The 65 works by 40 artists of different styles take a "critical" look at the colonial ...

Step back 300 years into colonial Latin America and the textiles are lavish, fashions often akin to couture, and who wore what was determined not just by what they could afford, but by class and ...

Labeling Latin America and its colonial period uniformly “Catholic” silences this rich history. There were, of course, thousands of Catholics in the colonies, and Catholicism was a central ...

Like many other places around the world, Latin America has had difficulty coming to grips with its colonial past. That tension is particularly visible in the art of the region. In Mexico ...