Research Guides: HIST 317: The Latin American Baroque (HC) Spring 2018: Visual Sources

ArtStor Image Groups

Student assistant Kate Monahan has gathered images of Baroque art and architecture from ArtStor. Click on the thumbnail for a larger image. The icon for the letter I will give you information about the work of art.

Aleijadinho

Brazil

Mesoamerica

Peru

Background Information

The arts in Latin America, 1492-1820
See also the Philadelphia Museum of Art web site for the exhibit which includes podcasts from the curator.

Oxford Art Online
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Includes full-text articles on every aspect of the visual arts.
See the articles:
• "Baroque" and
• "Baroque Aesthetics."

Note also the Related Content button which outlines many other relevant articles in the database by artistic medium and geographic area.

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Extremely rich site for understanding the art of a particular region and time. Use the Time Period and Geographic menus to see key Works of Art, Related Exhibitions, and, under Related Content, Thematic Essays. Essays include several related to Latin America including:
• Arts of the Mission Schools in Mexico

Journal Article Indexes

Art Full Text
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Offers abstracts of journals, museum bulletins and yearbooks in the fields of art, architecture, decorative arts and photography. Covers abstracts from 1929-present, full-text articles 1997-present.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA and RILA) This link opens in a new window
Covers journal articles and other titles about art published through 2007. For more recent material, see the International Bibliography of Art.

Images Sources

Archive of Early American Images (Brown University)
Provides access to nearly three thousand images from Spanish American sources including maps, prints, and book illustrations.

JSTOR Images (formerly Artstor)
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A digital library that provides access to thousands of digital images derived from a variety of museum, library and archival collections. Images support a variety of disciplines including architecture, painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and design.

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Colonial Latin America Curriculum Guide
ArtStor provides 13 thematic groups of images curated by Latin American historian, Rachel Moore. The groups range in time from the first colonial encounters through the age of independence. The images convey important historical information and represent a variety of view points.
Early Americas Digital Archive (University of Maryland)
Digital versions of texts written from 1492 to 1820 in or about the Americas.
Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820 (Smith College)
Themes treated include metizaje, politics, religion, and material culture. "The website provides a gallery of more than 100 color images, interpretive essays, and a searchable bibliography on visual culture."

Casta Painting

These colonial era paintings present family groups demonstrating distinctions that were made among ethnic and cultural groups.

Casta Painting by Ilona Katzew
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Publication Date: 2004-04-10
This study includes many illustrations of the genre.
Race and Classification by Ilona Katzew (Editor); Susan Deans-Smith (Editor)
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Publication Date: 2009-07-23
This innovative and provocative volume focuses on the historical development of racial thinking and imagining in Mexico and the southwestern United States over a period of almost five centuries, from the earliest decades of Spanish colonial rule and the birth of a multiracial colonial population, to the present.
Also available online.