Painting of the Virgin Mary embroidering fabric with Saints Anne and Joaquim
Image Credit

Unknown artist, Virgin Embroidering with Saints Anne and Joaquim, late 1600s to 1700s. Oil paint on canvas; 36½ × 40 in. Gift of Dr. Belinda Straight, 1983.598.

Materiality: Making Spanish America

2018 Mayer Center for Ancient and Latin American Art Symposium
November 1–2, 2018

Unknown artist, Virgin Embroidering with Saints Anne and Joaquim, late 1600s to 1700s. Oil paint on canvas; 36½ × 40 in. Gift of Dr. Belinda Straight, 1983.598.

Overview

Organized by Jorge Rivas. Sponsored by the Mayer Center.

During the early modern period in Spanish America, artists and craftspeople experimented with a variety of local natural resources and imported materials—pigments, fibers, feathers, shell, stone, wood, clay, silver, gold—which resulted in a new and unique visual culture. This symposium will bring together an international group of scholars to explore topics central to the formation and evolution of materiality in the Spanish Americas.

Sharp Auditorium—Hamilton Building, Lower Level
Included in general admission

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Keynote followed by a reception, Thursday, November 1: Thomas B.F. Cummins (Harvard U.) Seeing is Believing: The Miracle of Colonial Native Artists, their Works, & their Materials

Speakers, Friday, November 2

  • Sabena Kull (U. of Delaware and Mayer Fellow, DAM) Literacies Sewn in Silk: Embroidered Samplers & Female Education in the Spanish World
  • Emmanuel Ortega (U. of Illinois at Chicago) Consuming the Host: The Materiality of Franciscan Anxiety in 18th Century New Spain
  • Donna Pierce (Former Mayer Curator of Spanish Colonial Art, DAM) Material Matters: Global Trade at the Edges of the Spanish Colonial Empire
  • Rafael Ramos Sosa (U. de Sevilla) Sculpture at Home in Baroque Lima
  • Maria Paola Rodriguez Prada (Museo Nacional de Colombia) Ammonites, Gourds, Watercolors & Lithograph Prints: Scientific Objects & Images for a Cultural History
  • Olaya Sanfuentes (U. Catolica de Chile) Collect, Create & Send The objects in the Index of Archbishop of Trujillo, Martinez Castellon
  • Gabriela Siracusano (U. Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires) Materiality Between Mind & Hands Some Approaches to Native Creativity in Colonial South America
  • Jonathan Tavares (Art Institute of Chicago) Arming the New World The Material Culture of Conflict in New Spain 1500-1800
  • Antonio Urquizar Herrera (U. Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid) American Objects in 16th Century Castilian Households