"Where are the boundaries of American art?" Ronda Kasl on the "Crown of the Andes."
Featured artwork:
Crown of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, known as the Crown of the Andes, ca. 1660 (diadem) and ca. 1770 (arches). Colombian, Popayán. Gold, repoussé and chased; emeralds; 13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm), Body diameter: 13 1/4 in. (33.7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, Acquisitions Fund and Mary Trumbull Adams Fund, 2015 (2015.437) http://met.org/24nWfFK
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The Crown of the Andes
“Where are the boundaries of American art?”
Ronda Kasl
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Ronda Kasl
Curator of Latin American Art, the American Wing
Curator of Latin American Art, the American Wing
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Colombian; Popayán
Ca. 1660 (diadem) and ca. 1770 (arches)