Folding Screen (Biombo)
Exhibited:
Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World, Nov., 2011 – Jan. 29, 2012. The exhibition traveled to Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City, Summer, 2012.
The exhibition wall label read:
"Before the 'discovery' of the Americas in the fifteenth century, Europeans believed the farthest edges of the earth to be inhabited by monstruos races. Artists created many images reflecting these fantastical visions, sometimes portraying indigenous peoples as cannibals to signal their supposed lack of civilization.
This folding screen includes standard allegorical images of the Four Continents as women riding chariots, flanked by the mythological figures of Ceres and Flora. Behind America, a group of heath Indians dismember a body in the presence of two women dressed in Mexican huipiles (native blouses), who serve as personifications of the land."
Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World, Nov., 2011 – Jan. 29, 2012. The exhibition traveled to Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City, Summer, 2012.
The exhibition wall label read:
"Before the 'discovery' of the Americas in the fifteenth century, Europeans believed the farthest edges of the earth to be inhabited by monstruos races. Artists created many images reflecting these fantastical visions, sometimes portraying indigenous peoples as cannibals to signal their supposed lack of civilization.
This folding screen includes standard allegorical images of the Four Continents as women riding chariots, flanked by the mythological figures of Ceres and Flora. Behind America, a group of heath Indians dismember a body in the presence of two women dressed in Mexican huipiles (native blouses), who serve as personifications of the land."
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