The arts in Latin America, 1492-1820 / organized by Joseph J. Rishel with Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt

Published on the occasion of exhibitions held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, fall 2006; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, winter/spring 2007; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, summer 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 536-563).

Art in colonial Latin America: a brief critical review / Joseph J. Rishel -- Colonial foundations: points of contact and compatibility / Elizabeth Hill Boone and Thomas B.F. Cummins -- Spanish American colonial city: its origins, development, and functions / Alfonso Ortiz Crespo -- Black hand: notes on the African presence in the visual arts of Brazil and the Caribbean / Edward J. Sullivan -- Asia in the arts of colonial Latin America / Gauvin Alexander Bailey -- Parallel course of Latin American and European art in the viceregal era / Marcus Burke -- Artisans and artists in Ibero-America from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century / M. Concepción García Sáiz -- Decorative arts in Latin America, 1492-1820 / Mitchell A. Codding -- Textiles in colonial Latin America / Dilys E. Blum -- Dressing colonial, dressing diaspora / Gridley McKim-Smith -- Silver and silverwork, wealth and art in viceregal America / Cristina Esteras Martín -- Art of silver in colonial Brazil / Nuno Senos -- Exotic devotion: sculpture in viceregal America and Brazil, 1520-1820 / Marjorie Trusted -- Changing faces: the re-emergence of a sacred landscape in colonial Mexico and Peru / Adrian Locke -- Painting in colonial Latin America / Clara Bargellini -- Stars in the sea of the church: the Indian in eighteenth-century new Spanish painting / Ilona Katzew -- Observations on the origin, development, and manufacture of Latin American furniture / Jorge F. Rivas P.