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Pictured politics : visualizing colonial history in South American portrait collections /

"Examines official portrait collections in three prominent museums in three South American capitals--Lima, Buenos Aires, and Bogotá--to consider how works of art were active components in the construction of Ibero-American colonial histories and political relationships over nearly four hundred...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Engel, Emily A., 1978- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Portraits > Political aspects > South America > History.
Art, South American > 18th century.
Art, South American > 19th century.
Portraits > South America > History > 18th century.
Portraits > South America > History > 19th century.
Politics in art.
South America > Biography > Portraits.
Art, South American.
Portraits.
South America.
1700-1899
Biographies.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • New pictorial practices : early official portraits in viceregal Peru
  • Visualizing empire's history : royal portraits in the Iberoamerican world
  • Picturing viceregal authority in the Lima city council
  • Municipal collecting : viceregal portraits in Bogotá and Buenos Aires
  • Portrayal in a time of transition : early nineteenth-century portraits
  • Epilogue : the afterlife of official portraits.