Arts of the Spanish Americas, 1550–1850 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/arts-of-the-spanish-americas-1550-1850
The church not only exerted enormous power over the lives of the European and indigenous peoples, but also, through its patronage, profoundly influenced the nature of the visual arts in these regions.
It is the involvement of the native hand as well as the religious nature of much
