Arts of South America, 1 : Papers from the 2008 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver At Museum; A Publication of tje Frederocl and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum, Paperback by Pierce, Donna (EDT), ISBN 0806199768, ISBN-13 9780806199764, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

The celebrated Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum hosted its 8th Symposium, on the arts of South America, in November 2008. Revised and expanded for publication, the eight talks from the symposium are presented in this fine volume, which is heavily illustrated with color plates of excellent quality. The topics include an overview of the use of American motifs in European art and classical motifs in America, by Thomas . Cummins (Harvard U.); a cycle of paintings of the life of St. Augustine in a convent cloister in Lima, by Sabine MacCormack (U. of Notre Dame); a reconstruction of the identities of anonymous local artists in colonial Quito, by Susan Verdi Webster (College of William and Mary); and a survey of Franciscan buildings in colonial Brazil, by Nuno Senos (U. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal). The volume concludes with a history of . Stapleton's collection of South American art. The volume is distributed by the U. of Oklahoma Press. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()