2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits
If you’re interested in portraiture, visit www.retratos.org, where you can take a virtual tour of this exhibition, 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits.
The exhibition does literally cover two centuries of art created for a variety of reasons: to memorialize the dead, to celebrate the powerful, to comment on political issues, or to explore the psyche of the artist. From early pre-Columbian portraits, both painted and sculpted, through the whole turbulent history of Latin America, the exhibition opens a window on the events and culture of the region.
The online visit to the collection offers close-up views of a number of works from the different eras, with background information about the artists, the sitters, and the contemporary environment.
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