Through August 25, 2013.
The art of Spain reached the Americas on board the ships of the explorers, on the banners of the conquistadors, in illustrated Bibles brought by the friars, and in the form of small devotional images and portraits. The Spanish Colonial period (1520s-1830s) created a culture and art that is a combination of European and indigenous traditions of unique sensibilities based on ritual, status, and the creation of luxury goods.
Spanish Colonial Art: The Beauty of Two Traditions includes works from the Frost Museum’s permanent collection, on loan from private collectors, and from the Museum of the Americas, Madrid. The exhibition will run through August 25. A full-color catalog is available to the press upon request. This exhibition is part of the Frost Art Museum’s 2013 year-long program Commemorating 500 Years 1513-2013 Spain-Florida-Caribbean, a series of exhibitions celebrating the evolution of our culture and development since Ponce de León’s arrival in what is now Florida.
Carol Damian, Frost Art Museum Director and Chief Curator, and also the curator of this exhibit, notes that “Religious art was the most significant to the colonizing efforts, and came to dominate artistic production of this time. Paintings and devotional statuary of biblical subjects appear with unusual iconographic details, and the affection for images of the Holy Family and Guardian Angels is especially interesting.
“The variety of works created in the Americas, especially Latin America, offers a unique perspective on the people and culture of the time. The vast territories of the Americas, with their diverse ethnic groups and varied population centers ranging from tribal villages to the extraordinary cities of the Aztecs and the Incas, also gave way to regional styles in the Colonial period. This exhibition focuses on the most renowned centers of production, Peru, Colombia and Mexico—especially Cuzco, Peru, and Mexico City, the capital cities of the Inca and Aztec empires, respectively.”
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