Word: conquista
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Diego, Me, and Mr. Xolotl. Along the way the show takes in the principal ancient cultures of Mesoamerica, from the Olmecs through the great epoch of the Mayans (A.D. 300-900) to the Toltecs and Aztecs; then the viceregal and Catholic mission art that rose out of the Spanish conquista in the 16th century; the impact of the Baroque and the growth of a Mexican (as distinct from imported Spanish) artistic consciousness in the 17th century; and so on to the major Mexican artists of the early 20th century, Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Kahlo and Rufino...
Surprisingly, Spanish art was poor in its American imagery-probably, Honour suggests, because of guilt at the genocidal cruelty of the conquista. Yet the Spanish massacres in South America and Mexico did give a Dutchman one poignant vision of the ruin of Arcadia, which is also the earliest known painting of the New World: Jan Mostaert's West Indian Scene, circa 1542, with its naked Indian tribe defending their pastoral paradise against a phalanx of armored Spaniards...
...Broadway THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN, by Peter Shaffer, an eye-filling theatrical spectacular set in 16th century Peru, is fine when it sticks to tableaux of weary conquista dors making their nail-clawing ascent of the Andes. When it gets down to dramatic brass tacks, however, the play is full of such tacky fugues as war is hell, God is dead, and life lacks meaning...
Said Chile's Rafael Irarrazaval Correa, heir to the title of Conde de la Conquista and general manager of a Santiago ready-to-wear firm named Vestex: "I'm a citizen of a democratic nation . . . Don't kid me, please...
...poet Southey; the other, Leigh Hunt's copy of Troya's "Del Veltro allegorico di Dante," Firenze, 1826, with manuscript marginal annotations in Hunt's hand. His autograph, from some other source, has been pasted on the title-page. A miniature edition of Solis's "Historia de la Conquista de Mejico," Paris, 1826, in three volumes, is also included in Mrs. Smith's gift...
| 1 |