Enfilade

From the Denver Art Museum:

At the Crossroads: The Arts of Spanish America and Early Global Trade, 1492–1850
Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art, Denver Art Museum, 12-13 November 2010

During the era of early global trade instigated by the voyages of Columbus, Spanish America served as a crossroads for trade between Europe and Asia. Trade goods were exchanged between all areas and inspired artists to appropriate motifs, styles, and techniques previously unknown to them. The impact of trade on the arts of all regions and the transmission of objects and ideas between Spanish America, North America, Europe, and Asia will be included.

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S P E A K E R S
Karina Corrigan (Peabody-Essex Museum – Salem, MA), Chinese Export Silver to the Americas
Claire Farago & James Cordova (University of Colorado – Boulder), Casta Painting and Self-Fashioning Artists in New Spain
Dana Leibsohn (Smith College – Northampton, MA), Made in China / Made in Mexico
Jaime Mariazza F. (Universidad de San Marcos – Lima, Peru), Royal Funerary Rites in 17th-Century Lima: The Catafalque of Margaret of Austria
Maria Bonta de la Pezuela (Sotheby’s – New York), The Perils of Porcelain: Chinese Export Porcelain in the Mexican Colonial Market
Donna Pierce (Denver Art Museum), Asian Trade Goods in Colonial New Mexico
Sara Ryu (Yale University – New Haven), Transatlantic Icons of Conquest: Cristos de caña in New Spain and the Canary Islands
William Sargent (Peabody-Essex Museum – Salem, MA), Asian Ceramics in New England
Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt (Independent Scholar – New York), From Spain to Peru: Paintings by the Dozen
Charlene Villasenor Black (University of California – Los Angeles), Saints’ Cults and Conversion in the Global Hispanic World