Terms
Images
People and Places
Primary Texts
Scholarly Articles
100
What is the term used to describe when light and shadow are manipulated to convey the illusion of three dimensionality?
Modeling
100
What architectural style is represented on this building?
Renaissance
100
What is the place that connects these two images?
Huejotzingo
100
Who ordered the destruction of Inka sacred objects among which included keros?
Viceroy Toledo
100
What is the name of the massacre addressed the blog post in week 2 that Nahua artists used to describe their side of the history of conquest?
Massacre of Toxcatl
200
What adjective do we use to describe art that manipulates the visual elements in certain ways with the intention of presenting a clear message to teach the viewer.
Didactic
200
Why are these murals painted in black and white?
Print sources
200
What is the name of the Franciscan friar who formed the most well-known school for indigenous pupils to have a European-style education including European artistic conventions?
Pedro de Gante (or Peter of Ghent)
200
What art form does the florentine codex explain and describe in great detail?
featherwork
200
The book chapter you read for week 5 by Barbara Mundy focuses on what art form that were created for what questionnaire?
Maps in relaciónes geográficas
300
What is the name of the resin-technique used to apply color on kero cups?
Mopa-mopa
300
What is the name of the book that this image belongs in, and who made it?
Rhetorica Christiana,
Diego Valadés
300
What is the name of the group of professionals who made the finest textiles in the Inka empire?
qombicamayoc
300
What is the name of the capital city that Cortés admired and marveled at in 1520?
Tenochtitlan
300
What is Barbara Mundy's argument?
- The humanistic way of mapping endured as long as local indigenous community still existed and still promoted and consecrated those traditional ways of understanding
- Changes occur in mapping when changes to perceptions and relationships with space and land change through Spanish programs of land use and urbanization
400
Define policía
This term describes the state of being a civil society with a just form of government (including a broad range of attirbutes of civilized life like politeness, cleanliness, rationality). It is reflected in orderliness of the grid-plan in new towns
400
What new types of iconographic additions appear on colonial unkus and why?
European images of power and rulership (lions etc.) plus enduring tradition of tocapu but in new and unique ways. B/c of desire to express elite roots and Inka no longer have state sanctioned rules on what can be represented
400
What important codex was Bernardino de Sahagún in charge of organizing and creating?
The Florentine Codex
400
José de Acosta praised what type of art made in the Viceroyalty of Peru?
AND
What did he equate it with?
textiles
European silk
400
In her book introduction that you read for week 4, Valerie Fraser argues that the building of churches (and their classical style) was not a result of conquest, but instead, it was what?
an integral part of conquest
500
What is the andean term for an indigenous leader?
kuraka
500
What is this object called and how was it used (including the name of the liquid people would drink from it)?
Keru/kero/quero
Ceremonies to demonstrate political alliance
Chicha
500
Where (what region/town) was the largest cluster of monasteries located in the Viceroyalty of Peru and why?
Chucuito, around Lake Titicaca;
because it was considered an important, sacred region to the indigenous population
500
What is the name of the author that describes indigenous masons as highly skilled and yet also childlike in their suspicion of vaulting techniques?
Franciscan friar Juan de Torquemada
500
What did Joanne Pillsbury argue about the relationship betweek unkus and indigenous Andeans?
“Far from being passive reflectors of cultural “assimilation,” unku were carefully manipulated by Andeans to achieve their own ends.”