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Sister Plautilla Nelli (1524–1588) was a self-taught nun-artist and the first ever known female Renaissance painter of Florence. [1] She was a nun of the Dominican convent of St. Catherine of Siena located in Piazza San Marco, Florence, and was heavily influenced by the teachings of Savonarola and by the artwork of Fra Bartolomeo.
Campesino cibaeño, Yoryi Morel 1941. Dominican art comprises all the visual arts and plastic arts made in Dominican Republic.Since ancient times, various groups have inhabited the island of Ayíti/Quisqueya (the indigenous names of the island), or Hispaniola (what the Spanish named the island); the history of its art is generally compartmentalized in the same three periods throughout ...
Zemi figure, Ironwood with shell inlay. 27 in. (68.5 cm) high. Dominican Republic: 15th-16th century. The bowl atop the figure's head was used to hold cohoba during rituals. [1] Taino Zemi mask from Walters Art Museum
He engraved a series of the Miracles of the miracles of the 16th-century Dominican mystic Bartolomea Bagnesi. He was appointed by Grand Duke of Tuscany, Peter Leopold to posts at the Real Galleria and the Accademia di Belle Arti of Florence.
Girolamo Savonarola, OP (UK: / ˌ s æ v ɒ n ə ˈ r oʊ l ə /, US: / ˌ s æ v ə n-, s ə ˌ v ɒ n-/; [4] [5] [6] Italian: [dʒiˈrɔːlamo savonaˈrɔːla]; 21 September 1452 – 23 May 1498), also referred to as Jerome Savonarola, [7] was an ascetic Dominican friar from Ferrara and a preacher active in Renaissance Florence. [8]
Indochristian art (Spanish: arte indocristiano), is a type of Latin American art that combines European colonial influences with Indigenous artistic styles and traditions. During the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Franciscan , Dominican , and Augustinian monks extensively converted indigenous peoples to Christianity, introducing them to ...
The building now houses the Museo Alcázar de Diego Colón, which exhibits the Caribbean's most important collection of European late medieval and Renaissance art, acquired in the 1950s. The palace is an impressive structure built from coralline blocks [ 6 ] that once housed some fifty rooms, along with gardens and courtyards.
Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century. London: Phaidon Press Limited. ISBN 0-7148-3980-9. Donahue-Wallace, Kelly. Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 2008. Fane, Diana, ed. Converging Cultures: Art and Identity in Spanish America. (exhibition catalogue Brooklyn Museum of ...