DAILY PRESS
By Mark St. John Erickson
 |
| Detail: "Rest on the Flight into Egypt" Bolivian, 18th century Oil on canvas 32 1/16 x 69 11/16 in. (81.4 x 177 cm) Roberta and Richard Huber Collection Photograph by Graydon Wood, Philadelphia Museum of Art |
NORFOLK, VA---When European artists came to newly conquered Peru in the late 1500s, their first paintings and sculptures looked like they’d never left the Old World. Just how rarely these old colonial works have been seen in the United States can be gauged by the popular response to “Tesoras/Treasures/Tesouros: The Arts in Latin America 1492-1820,” which drew curious crowds in Los Angeles and Mexico City after opening at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2006. “It’s an Incan sensibility working with Old World parts — then putting them together in ways you would have never seen in Europe,” says chief curator Lloyd DeWitt of the
Chrysler Museum of Art, where “Highest Heaven: Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Art from the Collection of Roberta and Richard Huber” is on view through June 3. [
More]
Chrysler Museum of Art: “Highest Heaven: Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Art from the Collection of Roberta and Richard Huber” (Through June 3, 2018); One Memorial Place, Norfolk; (757)664-6200 o; chrysler.org
 |
Rest on the Flight into Egypt Bolivian, 18th century Oil on canvas 32 1/16 x 69 11/16 in. (81.4 x 177 cm) Roberta and Richard Huber Collection Photograph by Graydon Wood, Philadelphia Museum of Art
|
