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Description: Conquest of Mexico (Conquista de México)

TitleConquest of Mexico (Conquista de México)

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureMexican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1675–1700

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationMuseo Franz Mayer, Mexico City

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsMexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540New SpainMexico City (Mexico)

StatusBiombo (folding screen); other side of screen shows panorama view of Mexico City

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6. Four Cities and their Images

Richard L. Kagan

Urban Images of the Hispanic World: 1493–1793

In 1615, Fray Juan de Torquemada, a Spanish Franciscan who had spent much of his life in New Spain, published Monarchia Indiana, a sprawling, four volume work...

Author

Richard L. Kagan

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.151-198

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00278.006

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21937&redirecttoanchor=70770

Chapter subject tags:Cities and towns--Pictorial worksMexico City (Mexico)Cuzco (Peru)Lima (Peru)Potosí (Bolivia)Cartography

Chapter One: Land Icon Nation

Katherine Manthorne and Fausto Ramírez Rojas and Claudia Valladão de Mattos

Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic

Terrain across the Americas from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic has been constructed over the past 500 years into motifs of regional, national and hemispheric identity...

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Katherine Manthorne and Fausto Ramírez Rojas and Claudia Valladão de Mattos

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.18-45

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00273.002

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21840&redirecttoanchor=70770

Chapter subject tags:Landscape painting, AmericanAmerica--Discovery and explorationLandscape painting, Latin American

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