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Art Of and From the New World during the Baroque Period.
By Sou Ortiz
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Colonial Era ( ) was when European civilization and culture crossed the Atlantic to The Americas gold and silver began to flow back to Europe, while church missionaries, Spanish conquistadors, and other European settlers, massively flowed into it. It was only natural that the two cultures would influence one another.
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The influence of Classical models
Indians were depicted in familiar classical god and goddesses like representation. because gods and ancient beings were previously depicted from exotic lands, and the Americas was new and exotic to the Europeans in the Baroque era. Hans Groenin’s Allegory of America 1610
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European’s Personification and symbolism of America
depicted dark, wearing a feathered headdress, sometimes beads, elaborately tattooed, naked resembling uncivilized. depicted with animals symbolic of the Americas, such as, iguana, armadillo, alligators, lizards. Often times he is holding a spear with a jagged head or a bow and arrow to represent that he is war-like. cannibalistic, in which artist would illustrate Indians holding severed body parts
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The Noble Native American
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Anti-Spanish Persuasion
Friar Bartolome de Las Casas in 1664 entitled Spanish Atrocities in Hispaniola the first Caribbean region to be settled by Spaniard. “Doomed Indians.” obsessive cruelty and tyranny
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Persuasive uses of European art done in New Spain
Jesuit father Diego de la Puente…when he was active in Peru between represents a fundamental aspect of the authority by means of which the Spanish came to dominate in New Spain.
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Art From New Spain Sebastian Lopez de Arteaga entitled, The Incredulity of St Thomas Done in Mexico. The Chiaroscuro, and semi-nude Christ who’s in a calm stance with a sense of drama coming from his pale skin Very European Baroque
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Another example of colonial painting from Mexico
The Adoration of the Kings, 1655 By Jose Juarez a Mexican-born artist never went abroad but was a pupil of Arteaga who taught him the Baroque style
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