Papers by Orlando Hernandez Ying
The Arts of the Ancient Americas at the Dallas Museum of Art, 2023
This essay revisits the history and dissemination of the art of metallurgy in the ancient America... more This essay revisits the history and dissemination of the art of metallurgy in the ancient Americas through a extensive process of intercultural exchange that extended over vast territories from the South American highlands to the periphery of the Caribbean Basin during the first millennium CE. The stylistic similarities between gold ornaments found namely in Colombia and Central Panama from the collection holdings of the Dallas Museum of Art will serve as documental evidence of the existence of a pan-regional cosmology associated to the military theocracies that ruled the land. This category of ornaments with its own repertory of icons and themes co-existed with the distinctive regional styles of ornamentation such as nose rings that has helped modern scholars differentiate one culture from another. This research focuses on the commonalities in the metallurgic production associated to kingship throughout the Isthmo-Colombian Area, studying them from a broader geo-cultural perspective.
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This article explores the dynamics of adoption and re-adaptation of European visual culture evide... more This article explores the dynamics of adoption and re-adaptation of European visual culture evident in the production of the series of canonical and apocryphal archangel paintings produced in the Andes during the colonial period. Referencing the theoretical framework proposed by Raquel Chang-Rodríguez (1999) that suggests that behind an item of apparent assimilation there are elements of cultural resistance, this research aims to elucidate the elements of indigenous religiosity that survived within an apparently European visual context using the paintings as documents. The archangel paintings, originally informed by Italian artists, suffered a process of assimilation and transformation by Andean artists who turned them from a symbol of the conquerors and their military might into a symbol of Andean identity, nonconformity, and validation under the Spanish imperial rule.
Una de las composiciones pictoricas que mayor exito alcanzo en los distintos territorios del impe... more Una de las composiciones pictoricas que mayor exito alcanzo en los distintos territorios del imperio espanol fue la del arcangel San Miguel, disenada por el pintor flamenco Martin de Vos. La amplia difusion que tuvo tanto en la Peninsula Iberica como en los virreinatos americanos fue posible gracias a los grabados producidos en Flandes.
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Papers by Orlando Hernandez Ying