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Collections Online

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) 
Spanish Colonial and 19th Century 

Arts of the Spanish Americas 1550-1850, MMA NY

Museo de Americas Madrid, SP
The Collection of the Museo de América contains a vast array of Precolumbian, ethnographic, and viceregal objects and documents. The most ancient collections are part of the Real Gabinete de Historia Natural which was founded mid- eighteenth century.  

Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú (MNAAHP)

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana. Cuba

Print Resources

Burkholder, Mark A., and Lyman L. Johnson. Colonial Latin America. Oxford University Press, 2001.

Herzog, Tamar. Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas. Harvard University Press, 2015.

Hoberman, Louisa Schell, and Susan Migden Socolow. Cities & Society in Colonial Latin America. University of New Mexico Press, 1986.

Pierce, et al. Companion to Glitterati: Portraits & Jewelry from Colonial Latin America at the Denver Art Museum.  Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum, 2015.

About this Guide

Note: Many of the databases and/or article links referenced in this guide require CaneID authentication through the the UM Library system unless denoted by the "open access" symbol. 
online access
*peer-reviewed
  open access

 

De Español y Mestiza, Castiza. 
From Casta painting series. Mexico. 1763

E-Resources

Burkholder, Mark A. “Spain's America: from Kingdoms to Colonies.” Colonial Latin American Review, vol. 25, no. 2, 2016, pp. 125–153.

Donahue-Wallace, Kelly. Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821. 1st ed., University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
 

Article Indexes & Databases

ARTstor Image Database

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and Répertoire International de la Littérature de l'art (RILA)
Searchable together, these citation databases cover European and American visual arts material including articles from over 1,200 journals.

JSTOR
Abundant full-text access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.

Worldcat Online Catalog

Subject Specialist

  • Gilda Santana

    Director, Architecture Research Center / Art & Art History Librarian

    gsantana@miami.edu

    305-284-5282

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Contact Information

Architecture Research Center 
1223 Dickinson Drive
University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL 33146
Phone: 305.284.5282
E-mail: gsantana@miami.edu
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