Unit 3.5: New Spain

Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza

Artist: N/A

Period/Movement: Viceroyalty of New Spain

Medium: Pigment on paper

Location: Tenochtitlan = Mexico City

Significance: composite profile, hieroglyphs, calendar representation, codex— hand written book, commissioned by Mendoza, piece never made it to Spain (stolen by France), representing the quadrants and canals of Tenochtitlan

Angel with Arquebus

Artist: Asiel Timor Dei

Period/Movement: Spanish Colonial Baroque

Medium: Oil on canvas

Location: Master of Calamarca (La Paz School)

Significance: represents fighting for God, high fashion wealth (gold, lace), the 3 Gs- gold, guns, god, commissioned by the Church, propaganda for war, militarist approach to faith

Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and hunting scene

Artist: N/A

Period/Movement: Spanish Colonial Baroque

Medium: Tempera and resin on wood, shell inlay

Location: Tepotzotlan, Mexico

Significance: 2-sided folding panels, serve as a room divider in the palace of the Spanish Viceroy, military scenes shown, floral decorative borders, imagery based on European prints, “biombo” (spanish) or “byubu” (japanese)

The Virgin of Guadalupe

Artist: Miguel González

Period/Movement: Spanish Colonial

Medium: Oil on canvas on wood, inlaid with mother-of-pearl

Location: Mexico City, Basiclia of Guadalupe

Significance: enshrined in a church, used for prayers, religious propaganda, narrative piece, mass conversion to Catholicism

Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo

Artist: Juan Rodriguez Júarez

Period/Movement: New Spain

Medium: Oil on canvas

Location: Mexico

Significance: casta painting (displays mother, child, father), part of a series, geometric shapes, European style, social racial hierarchy, shows structure of society to Europeans, mestizo= European and Indigenous

Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Artist: Miguel Cabrera

Period/Movement: New Spain

Medium: Oil on canvas

Location: Mexico City, Mexico

Significance: surrounded by books (writer), decal on her (annunciation triptych), highlight her achievements, she’s a nun, wears rosary beads, shows her love for literature and her faith