KEY IDEAS:

• Colonial Latin America: mix of indigenous art forms with European materials

• Influences of subject matter and forms from Asia and Africa

• Subject matter does vary: religious, portraits, history, genre scenes

• Resembles art from Spain and southern Europe

• Columbus landed in the Bahamas in 1492 = conquest --> colonization!

• Europe brought disease which wiped out much of the Aztecs and Native Americans

• Children born of Spanish and Native Americans are called mestizos

• Spanish heavily desired gold, silver, crops

• Patronage: Spanish commissioned Native Americans = Catholicism with Native American traditions

• Artists: Many are anonymous, the point was to not have fame and glory