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Painting in Latin America, 1550–1820
From Conquest to Independence
Luisa Elena Alcala and Jonathan Brown
Art 61
Painting in Latin America, 1550–1820: From Conquest to Independence surveys the diverse styles,
subjects and iconography of painting in Latin America between the 16th and 19th centuries. While
European art forms were widely disseminated, copied and adapted throughout Latin America,
colonial painting is not a derivative extension of Europe. The ongoing debate over what to call it
– mestizo, hybrid, creole, indo-hispanic, tequitqui – testifies to a fundamental yet unresolved
question of identity.
Comparing and contrasting the Viceroyalties of New Spain, with its centre in modern-day Mexico,
and Peru, the authors explore the very different ways the two regions responded to the influence of the Europeans and their art.
A wide range of art and artists are considered, some for the first time. Rich with new photography and primary research, this
book delivers a wealth of new insight into the history of images and the history of art.
Luisa Elena Alcala is a professor titular at the department of history and theory of art, Universidad Autónoma Madrid.
Jonathan Brown is Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts at New York University.
Published in association with Ediciones El Viso
October 480 pp. 298x235mm. 250 colour + 100 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19101-1 £45.00*
Translation rights: Ediciones El Viso, Madrid
Giovanni Busi, called Cariani, The Lute Player, c. 1515,
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Photo: M. Bertola
Art and Music in Venice
From the Renaissance to Baroque
Edited by Hilliard T. Goldfarb
Artistic and musical creativity thrived in the Venetian Republic between the early 16th century and
the close of the 18th century. The city-state was known for its superb operas and splendid balls, and
the acoustics of the architecture led to complex polyphony in musical composition. Accordingly,
notable composers, including Antonio Vivaldi and Adrian Willaert, developed styles that were
distinct from those of other Italian cultures. The Venetian music scene, in turn, influenced visual
artists, inspiring paintings by artists such as Jacopo Bassano, Canaletto, Francesco Guardi, Pietro
Longhi, Bernardo Strozzi, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo, Tintoretto and Titian. Together, art
and music served larger aims, whether social, ceremonial or even political. Lavishly illustrated, Art and Music in Venice brings
Venice’s golden age to life through stunning images of paintings, drawings, prints, manuscripts, textbooks, illuminated choir
books, musical scores and instruments, and period costumes. New scholarship into these objects by a team of distinguished
experts gives a fresh perspective on the cultural life and creative output of the era.
Exhibition Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 12/10/13 – 19/01/14; Portland Art Museum, 07/03/14 – 18/06/14
Hilliard T. Goldfarb is associate chief curator and curator of Old Masters at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Distributed for Editions Hazan, Paris • Translation rights: Editions Hazan, Paris
October 240 pp. 355x245mm. 200 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19792-1 £40.00*
Goya in the Norton Simon Museum
Juliet Wilson-Bareau • Edited by Leah Lehmbeck
During his lifetime, the industrialist and collector Norton Simon amassed a trove of European
paintings, drawings and prints by Rembrandt, Picasso, Degas and others. Simon occasionally
became fascinated with a particular artist’s oeuvre, and that passion inspired him to assemble
monographic holdings of work by several masters, chief among them Francisco de Goya.
This book examines the extraordinary Goya collection, which includes more than 1,400 prints, a
drawing and three paintings, in the founder’s namesake museum. Simon’s enduring interest in serial
images led him to acquire prints from various series and editions, and to compare and contrast
seemingly identical ones. Spotlighting rare proofs and single prints, the catalogue also presents a complete set each of Los
Caprichos, Disasters of War and other seminal series.
Juliet Wilson-Bareau is a pre-eminent scholar of Goya’s work. Leah Lehmbeck is curator at the Norton Simon Museum, where
she oversees the 19th- and 20th-century collections.
Distributed for the Norton Simon Art Foundation
January 264 pp. 280x255mm. 354 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19626-9 £45.00*
Translation rights: Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena