Journeys to New Worlds

Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Art in the Roberta and Richard Huber Collection

Suzanne L Stratton-Pruitt editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Yale University Press

Published:5th Mar '13

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This beautifully illustrated catalogue showcases 126 Spanish and Portuguese artworks from the 17th and 18th centuries, all highlights from the dazzling collection of Roberta and Richard Huber. Featuring works in a variety of mediums and from far-flung places, including paintings, silver, and furniture from South America and sculptures in ivory from the Spanish Philippines and from Portuguese territories in India.

Distinguished experts shed light on these significant objects, many of which have not been previously published and which illustrate the unparalleled artistic exchanges between and within these colonial empires. The Andean painters Melchor Pérez Holguín (1660–1732) and Gaspar Miguel de Berrío (c. 1706–c. 1762) inventively interpreted European iconographies, while similar adaptations took place in Asia, where native craftsmen, carved Christian images in ivory. These works traveled along the trade routes connecting Europe to Asia and the Americas, thus influencing the development of a new visual culture.



Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art


Exhibition Schedule:

Philadelphia Museum of Art(02/16/13–05/19/13)

ISBN: 9780300191769

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1724g

224 pages