Journeys to new worlds
Subtitle: Spanish and Portuguese colonial art in the Roberta and Richard Huber collection
By: edited by Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt with Mark A. Castro ; contributions by Luisa Elena Alcalá ... [et al.].
Contributors: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Publisher: Philadelphia Museum of Art; In association with Yale University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Philadephia, PA; New Haven; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780876332436; 9780300191769
Subjects: Colonial Art; Exhibitions; Latin American Art; Spanish influences; Portuguese influences; Art collections; Art; Private collections
Other titles: Spanish and Portuguese colonial art in the Roberta and Richard Huber Collection
Description: This beautifully illustrated catalogue showcases 120 Spanish and Portuguese artworks from the seventeenth and eighteenth 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 and Gaspar Miguel de Berrío 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.
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held Feb. 16-May 19, 2013 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Timothy Rub; title: Acknowledgments --; title: Introduction  -- Joseph J. Rishel; title: Maps --; title: The joy of discovery : a conversation with Roberta and Dick Huber  -- with Joseph J. Rishel and Mark A. Castro; title: A private collection in colonial Spanish America  -- Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt; title: On perceptions of value in Colonial art  -- Luisa Elena Alcalá; title: Catalogue. Paintings : Origins of the art of painting in colonial Peru and Bolivia  -- Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt ; entries by Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt and Mark A. Castro; title: Ivories : The Indo-Portuguese and Hispano-Philippine schools of ivory sculpture  -- Margarita M. Estella Marcos ; entries by Margarita M. Estella Marcos; title: Sculpture  -- entries by Mark A. Castro and Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt; title: Silver : From the Andes to the Amazon : silver in colonial South America  -- David L. Barquist ; entries by Mark A. Castro and Enrique Quispe Cueva; title: Furniture -- entries by Jorge F. Rivas P. and Mark A. Castro.