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Pictured politics : visualizing colonial history in South American portrait collections /

"Examines official portrait collections in three prominent museums in three South American capitals--Lima, Buenos Aires, and Bogotá--to consider how works of art were active components in the construction of Ibero-American colonial histories and political relationships over nearly four hundred...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Engel, Emily A., 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2020
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Art and authority in late colonial South American portraiture
  • New pictorial practices : early official portraits in viceregal Peru
  • Visualizing empire's history : royal portraits in the Iberoamerican world
  • Picturing viceregal authority in the Lima city council
  • Municipal collecting : viceregal portraits in Bogotá and Buenos Aires
  • Portrayal in a time of transition : early nineteenth-century portraits
  • Epilogue: The afterlife of official portraits.