Latin American Art / Arte Latinoamericano
Charles Street, Second Floor
Latin American Art / Arte Latinoamericano presents artworks from the museum’s expansive collection of art from South, Central, and North America and the Caribbean in one contiguous space for the first time in the museum’s history. Encompassing works from 40 cultures, spanning more than four millennia, the beautifully reimagined North Court galleries—renovated for the first time in 40 years for this permanent exhibition—create a space for visitors to engage with the collection through bilingual materials.
Latin American Art / Arte Latinoamericano is accompanied by the publication of The Spirit Within: Art and Life in Latin America. This volume examines how, for people in the Indigenous Americas, materials had and continue to have a life of their own.
The Spirit Within
Saint Jerome in Penance and the Four Evangelists
America being the latest, and most accurate description of the Nevv VVorld; containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither. The conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts. Also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers. Their habits, customs, manners, and religions. Their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents. With an appendix, containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown south-land and the arctick region. Collected from most authentick authors, augmented with later observations, and adorn'd with maps and sculptures, by John Ogilby Esq; His Majesty's cosmographer, geographick printer ...
![Image for Tratamiento de una ofrenda para pedir la lluvia, de San Pablito, Pahuatlan, Pue[bla]. (A ritual of an offering to ask for rain.)](https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/thumbnails/PS4_W.964_3Qtr_DD_ED25_57827.jpg)
