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Description: The Parish of Saint Sebastian (from the series Corpus Christi de Santa Ana), detail

TitleThe Parish of Saint Sebastian (from the series Corpus Christi de Santa Ana), detail

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1675–1680

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationMuseo de Arte Religioso, Palacio Arzobispal, Cuzco, Peru

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsClothing and dressLatin America--Civilization--Spanish influences

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Dressing Colonial, Dressing Diaspora

Gridley McKim-Smith

The Arts in Latin America, 1492–1820

It is said that clothes express power. Images from Mexico and the Andes, called the Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru, however, demand more sensitive description. Clothing in Latin America voiced power with many inflections, including politics, race, wealth, gender, and, especially among the Creoles, or Spaniards born in the New World, the experience of living in a diaspora. The Spaniards who...

Author

Gridley McKim-Smith

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.155-163

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00264.011

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21325&redirecttoanchor=65887

Chapter subject tags:Clothing and dressTextile fabrics, Colonial

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