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Art and Revolution in 19th century Latin America


 

 

Required readings

á      Ades: 6-39    

 

 

Important names & terms

á      Latin American Wars of Independence, 1810-1825

á      Sim—n Bol’var, El Libertador (1783-1830)

á      Republic of Gran Colombia, 1819-1830

á       Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism

á      Real Academia de San Carlos, Mexico City, founded in 1785

á      Criollismo, Nationalism

 

 

Links to Images

á      Pedro JosŽ Figueroa, Sim—n Bol’var. Libertador and Father of the Nation, 1819 (Ades: 17)

á      Anonymous, Policarpa Salvatierra goes to her execution, 19th century

á      Arturo Michelena, Miranda in La Carraca, 1896 (Ades: 35)

á      Mart’n Tovar y Tovar, Battle of Carabobo, Capitol building, Caracas, 1887

á      Juan Manuel Blanes, Paraguay: Image of your desolate country, c. 1880 (Ades: 28)

á      Manuel Tols‡, Equestrian portrait of Charles IV (El Caballito), 1803, Mexico City (Bailey: 205)

á      Adamo Tadolini, Equestrian monument to Sim—n Bol’var, 1874, Caracas (copy of the 1859 original for the Plaza Bolivar of Lima, Perœ)