Indocristiano
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Indochristian art or is a type of Latin American art
Art
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Spanish
Spain
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 Franciscans, Dominicans
Dominican Order
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 and Augustinians
Augustinians
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 in the 16th century introduced the native Indians to not only their religious beliefs, but the Europe
Europe
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an arts
ARts
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 and aesthetics
Aesthetics
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. Hand in hand, they learned about each other in a cultural exchange that gave birth to what we know as Indochristian Art.

There are very few sources that give credit to the intelligence, sensibility, enthusiasm and craftsmanship of the Indians involved in the construction and decoration of the Convents and Temples of the New Spain. A seminal book on Arte Indocristiano by Constantino Reyes-Valerio
Constantino Reyes-Valerio
Constantino Reyes-Valerio was a prominent Mexican scholarof pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, particularly the Aztec and the Maya as well as the Colonial Art....

(1978 first edition, redited in 2000) analysed in detail the work of native Mexicans under the guidance of Christian friars. His work contains the story of those footprints of the past, welded as silent testimony of the Indians artistic activity in the disturbed Colonial world. The story is also a struggle between Indians and Friars; the slow imposition of the European culture, pregnant of medieval preconceptions that cannot be forgotten if we are to understand the men that were immersed in that painful and yet emotional contact. The lack of an adequate appraisal of the artistic work of the Indian in the 16th century and the extraordinary interest drawn by every manifestation of the Indians' presence paved the way for this work that include Sculpture and Painting; two unquestionable expressions of Indo-Christian Art, the magnificent legacy of the Indian of the Eternal Mexico.

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