“Virgen de los Sastres [Virgin with Tailors]” (c. 1750), Cusco, Peru, oil and gold on canvas, 57 1/2 x 40 3/8 inches (Museo Pedro de Osma, Lima, courtesy the Blanton Museum of Art, all images courtesy the Blanton Museum of Art) Early images of the peoples of the Americas produced […]
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An Exhibit on Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America Weaves Lessons Through Textiles
Action back 300 a long time into colonial Latin The usa and the textiles are lavish, fashions often akin to couture, and who wore what was established not just by what they could afford to pay for, but by class and race, far too. It’s a setting the show “Painted […]