NEW ENGLAND/NEW SPAIN  Portraiture in the Colonial Americas, 1492-1850

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These are papers from the 2014 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum, featuring Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial art and in colonial America. Lavishly illustrated. It features a foreword by Christoph Heinrich and an introduction by Donna Pierce. It includes ten chapters from Cortes and Moctezuma to Spanish Presence in a Fledgling Republic. The other chapters key on humanist portraits, lmitation on colonial British America, nature, corporate portraits, dress, and regional tastes, Among others. 8&1/2 x 11 size.