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Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America

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Two portraits of different women from the 18th-century wearing very ornate dresses and wigs
MAJOR EXHIBITION

Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America

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August 14, 2022
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January 8, 2023
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About the Exhibition

Golden brocades and voluptuous fabrics are a characteristic visual feature of Spanish American art. 

Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America addresses the social roles of textiles and their visual representations in different media produced in Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela during the 1600s and 1700s. Beyond emphasizing how aesthetic traditions of European and Indigenous origin were woven together during this period, the exhibition showcases the production, use, and meaning of garments as well as the ways they were experienced both in civil and religious settings.

Delve deeper into details featured in the show by reading our blog post The Unusual and Ravishing: Beauty Marks, Cochineal, and Prints Galore by Daniel Ymbong.

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This exhibition is organized by Rosario I. Granados, Marilynn Thoma Associate Curator, Art of the Spanish Americas

Members get free admission.

This video is also available in Spanish on our YouTube channel.

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Further reading and additional resources on Casta paintings can be found in this bibliography.

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A book titled "Painted Cloth" on a chair

The accompanying catalogue for this exhibition is available for purchase in our Museum Store and online via Amazon.

248 pages, 8.00 x 10.50 x 1.70 in, 140 color images

*$45 (excludes tax)

Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America
Edited by Rosario I. Granados, Marilynn Thoma Associate Curator, Art of the Spanish Americas

This lavishly illustrated exhibition catalogue focuses on the social role of civil and religious clothing in Latin America during the 1700s.

Photo Gallery

"Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple," Cusco, 18th century, oil and gold on canvas,37 13/16× 51 1/2 in.,Collection of Carl & Marilynn Thoma
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Credits

Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America is organized by the Blanton Museum of Art.

Lead funding for this exhibition and accompanying catalogue is provided by the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation and a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom, with additional support from the Scurlock Foundation Exhibition Endowment.  

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Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Feature Image Credit

Attributed to Pedro José Diaz, Portrait of Rosa de Salazar y Gabiño, Countess of Monteblanco and Montemar (detail), Lima, circa 1770–1780, oil on canvas, 37 x 29 3/4 in., Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Purchase through the generosity of Jeanne and Michael Klein in honor of Marilynn Thoma, 2019; (right) Miguel Cabrera, Doña María de la Luz Padilla y Gómez de Cervantes (detail), Mexico City, circa 1760, oil on canvas, 43 x 33 in., Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund and Dick S. Ramsay Fund

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