Latin American art - Mannerism, Colonialism, Baroque

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Detail from Popular History of Mexico, mosaic by Diego Rivera, 1953; on the Teatro des los Insurgentes, Mexico City.

Lion fountain, 16th century, Tepeaca, Mexico; in the Museo Nacional Virreinal, Tepotzotlán, Mexico.

Page from the Codex Mendoza (begun 1541) depicting Aztec education of boys and girls.

Syncretistic cross in Acolmán, Mexico (c. 1560s), with the face of Jesus Christ shown at the centre and the crossbar showing foliage representing the world tree connecting the underworld to the heavens.

Vaulting with frescoes, oil on canvas by Juan Gersón, 1562; in the Franciscan church at Tecamachalco, Puebla, Mexico.

Santiago Matamoros (“Santiago the Moor Slayer”), relief by an anonymous sculptor, 1654, on the side portal of the Jesuit church of La Compañía in Arequipa, Peru.

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By the time European artists arrived in the Americas in large numbers, Mannerism, a style characterized by artificiality and a self-conscious cultivation of elegance, had usurped the Renaissance style in popularity. The Spanish-trained painter Baltasar de Echave Orio established a dynasty of painters in Mexico that controlled official commissions there for three generations. This first Echave married the daughter of an important associate of Pereyns, Francisco Ibía (known as Zumaya), a skilled Mannerist. Echave painted in a shimmering Mannerist style during the early 17th century, well after the style had died out in most of Europe. Three of the 14 ...(100 of 18431 words)

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