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2.3.3: Sebastián López de Arteaga, Marriage of the Virgin

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    • Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Beth Harris, "Sebastián López de Arteaga, Marriage of the Virgin," in Smarthistory, September 12, 2021, accessed November 5, 2022, https://smarthistory.org/sebastian-lopez-de-arteaga-marriage-virgin/
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    Sebastián López de Arteaga, Marriage of the Virgin (Los Desposorios de la Virgen), before 1652, oil on canvas, 223.5 x 170 cm (Museo Nacional de Arte, INBA, Mexico City)


    Additional resources:

    James Oles, Art and Architecture in Mexico (London: Thames & Hudson, 2013)

    Painting a New World, exh. cat., ed. Donna Pierce, Denver Art Museum (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004) (available online)

    Tesoros, Treasures, Tesouros, the Arts in Latin America, 1492–1820, exhibition catalogue (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2006)

    Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521–1821 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008)