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[CANCELLED] Art Talk Live: Material Wonder and Hemispheric Identities—Silver and Mahogany in the Spanish Empire

Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge MA

Apr 04 2023

[CANCELLED] Art Talk Live: Material Wonder and Hemispheric Identities—Silver and Mahogany in the Spanish Empire

Artist active in present-day Bolivia or Peru, Our Lady of Guadalupe of Extremadura, 18th century. Oil and silver on canvas. Collection of Carl & Marilynn Thoma, TL42430.6.

The exhibition From the Andes to the Caribbean explores the colonial legacies of fashionable commodities in the early modern world.

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Join associate curator Horace D. Ballard as he discusses the ideas and objects featured in the special exhibition De los Andes al Caribe: El arte americano desde el imperio español/From the Andes to the Caribbean: American Art from the Spanish Empire, on view through July 30, 2023.

Featuring nearly 50 objects from the Harvard Art Museums collections and the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation, the exhibition explores how American material and mineral wealth fueled global trade, changed the

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