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  2. Fasces - Wikipedia

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    As an emblem, fasces made their way to the colonies in British North America. [60] There, during the American Revolution, the fasces' symbology as referencing strength through unity was adopted as a symbol of the united colonial effort against British rule. [61] Fasces similarly came to adopt a privileged symbology during the French Revolution.

  3. Phrygian cap - Wikipedia

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    Dacian prisoner with Phrygian cap, Roman statue from the 2nd century.. The Phrygian cap (/ ˈ f r ɪ dʒ (iː) ən / ⓘ FRIJ-(ee)-ən), also known as Thracian cap [1] [2] [3] and liberty cap, is a soft conical cap with the apex bent over, associated in antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe, Anatolia, and Asia.

  4. Mexican muralism - Wikipedia

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    Mural by Diego Rivera showing the pre-Columbian Aztec city of Tenochtitlán.In the Palacio Nacional in Mexico City.. Mexican muralism refers to the art project initially funded by the Mexican government in the immediate wake of the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) to depict visions of Mexico's past, present, and future, transforming the walls of many public buildings into didactic scenes ...

  5. Spanish American wars of independence - Wikipedia

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    Revolution for women meant something different from for men. Women saw revolution as a way to earn equal rights, such as voting, and to overcome the suppression of subordination of women to men. Women were usually identified as victims during the independence wars since the women of Latin America were forced to sacrifice for the cause.

  6. Libertadores - Wikipedia

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    The Guayaquil conference (1822) between Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín, the greatest libertadores (liberators) of Spanish America.. Libertadores (Spanish pronunciation: [liβeɾtaˈðoɾes] ⓘ, "Liberators") were the principal leaders of the Spanish American wars of independence from Spain and of the movement in support of Brazilian independence from Portugal.

  7. Latin American art - Wikipedia

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    Latin American art is the combined artistic expression of Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, as well as Latin Americans living in other regions. The art has roots in the many different indigenous cultures that inhabited the Americas before European colonization in the 16th century.

  8. Mexican art - Wikipedia

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    Art and Revolution in Latin America, 1910–1990. New Haven: Yale University Press 2002. Dean, Carolyn and Dana Leibsohn, "Hybridity and Its Discontents: Considering Visual Culture in Colonial Spanish America," Colonial Latin American Review, vol. 12, No. 1, 2003. delConde, Teresa (1996). Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century. London ...

  9. Latin American wars of independence - Wikipedia

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    The Latin American wars of independence may collectively refer to all of these anti-colonial military conflicts during the decolonization of Latin America around the early 19th century: Spanish American wars of independence (1808–1833), multiple related conflicts that resulted in the independence of most of the Spanish Empire 's American colonies