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Art and History of Colonial Latin America
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Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico by Call Number: F1221.N3 W66 2003
Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History by Call Number: F1412 .C642 2002A selection of primary texts and images with scholarly commentary.
Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530-1900 by Call Number: F3429 .G845 2008This landmark three-volume reference work inventories the principal sources useful for the study of the region--particularly its Prehispanic and vice-regal cultures--covering relevant texts from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century.
Afro-Latino Voices: Narratives from the Early Modern Ibero-Atlantic World, 1550-1812 by Call Number: DT16.5 .A37 2009Provides a broad sampling of documents recording the early modern voices of the African diaspora.
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Overviews
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The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History by Available as an e-book
The Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820 by Call Number: N6502 .A78 2006
Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821 by Available as an e-book
Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between: Murals of the Colonial Andes by Call Number: F3429.3.P34 C64 2016
Converging Cultures: Art and Identity in Spanish America by Call Number: N6553 .C66 1996
Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America, 1450-1650 by Call Number: N6370 .R36 1995
Painting a New World: Mexican Art and Life, 1521-1821 by Call Number: ND253 .P54 2004
Painted in Mexico, 1700-1790: Pinxit Mexici by Call Number: ND253 .P35 2017
Treasures of Mexican Colonial Painting: The Davenport Museum of Art Collection by Call Number: ND253 .B87 1998
Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World by Call Number: N6502.2 .K38 2011
Festivals and Daily Life in the Arts of Colonial Latin America, 1492-1850 by Call Number: NX501.5 .M39 2012- America: Bride of the Sun: 500 Years Latin America and the Low Countries byCall Number: N6931 .A54 1991
- Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries byCall Number: N6550 .M48 1990
- Colonial Art in Mexico byCall Number: N6553 .T6813
- Painting of the Kingdoms, Shared Identities: Territories of the Spanish Monarchy, 16th-18th Centuries byCall Number: ND202.2 .P35 20084 vols. Many images from the entire period.
- Images of the Natives in the Art of New Spain: 16th to 18th Centuries byCall Number: N6553 .V37 2005
- Los siglos de oro en los virreinatos de América : 1550-1700Call Number: N6502.2 .S53 1999
- Mexico en el mundo de las colecciones de arte byCall Number: N6550 .M49 19947 volumes
Volumes 1-2 Nueva España
Volumes 5-6 Mesoamerica
Maps, flora and fauna, religious imagery, portraits, etc.
Racial Identity
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Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings by Call Number: ND1312.M44 C37 2003
Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico by Call Number: ND1312 .M44 K37 2004
Race and Classification: The Case of Mexican America by Call Number: F1392.A1 R33 2009Available as an e-book and in print.
Visions of Savage Paradise: Albert Eckhout, Court Painter in Colonial Dutch Brazil by Call Number: ND653.E3 B75 2006Available as an e-book and in print.- New World Orders: Casta Painting and Colonial Latin America byCall Number: ND1312.L34 N49 1996
- The African Presence in México: From Yanga to the Present byCall Number: N8232 .A37 2006
- Inventing Race: Casta Painting and Eighteenth-Century Mexico by Ilona KatzewCatalog of an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, April 4-August 8, 2004. PDF free online.
Religion and Iconography
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Creating the Cult of St. Joseph: Art and Gender in the Spanish Empire by Call Number: N8080.J67 B53 2006
Patron Saint of the New World: Spanish American Colonial Images of St. Joseph by Call Number: N6502.2 .P37 1995
The Art of Professing in Bourbon Mexico: Crowned-Nun Portraits and Reform in the Convent by Call Number: ND1312.M44 C67 2014
Framing the Sacred: The Indian Churches of Early Colonial Mexico by Call Number: NA5253 .W35 2010
Local Religion in Colonial Mexico by Call Number: BX1428.3 .L63 2006
The Virgin, Saints, and Angels: South American Paintings 1600-1825 from the Thoma Collection by Call Number: ND1432.S63 S77 2006
Visualizing Guadalupe: From Black Madonna to Queen of the Americas by Call Number: N8070 .P46 2014
Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cusco, Peru by Call Number: GT4995.C6 D43 1999
Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru by Call Number: F3429.3.R3 M28 1991- The Virgin of the Andes: Art and Ritual in Colonial Cuzco byCall Number: ND417.C8 D36 1995
- Iconografía y mitos indígenas en el arte byCall Number: F3429.3.R3 G57 2004
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