"A call to action": visual persuasion in a Spanish American painting

• Autores: Luisa Elena Alcalá
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 94, Nº 4, 2012, págs. 594-617
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the 1680s, a painting representing Franciscan missions and indigenous peoples in Central America was sent to Madrid from Mexico as a tactic to lobby for continued royal support. The discovery of this historical circumstance provides a means to analyze this work in depth as an example of visual persuasion in a transatlantic context. Because it was meant to be viewed far from its place of production, the painting offers a unique opportunity to consider the interpretative model of connectedness (rather than influence) for the study of art in the Iberian Atlantic world.