Unknown Artist, Amoltepec, Oaxaca (México) 1580, tempera on paper, Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin Libraries
On August 16, 1519 an expedition led by Spanish Hernando Cortés left the coast of Veracruz, in what today is Mexican territory, and began marching inland. The consequences of that adventure have marked the region’s identity until this date. Should we celebrate or lament such events? Can a museum display provide elements to expand the conversation beyond those two extreme alternatives? As an answer to these questions, this talk will present the rationale behind Mapping Memory: Space and History in 16th-century Mexico, an exhibition opening to the public in the summer of 2019 at the Blanton Museum of Art.
Rosario Inés Granados is a Mexican art historian of religious material culture. As the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Associate Curator of Spanish Colonial Art at the Blanton Museum of Art she creates exhibitions that place the art of the Spanish Americas at the intersection of multidisciplinary conversations. Before coming to UT Austin, she taught undergraduate and graduate seminars on Religion, Gender Studies, Cultural Heritage, and Latin American Art at the University of Chicago and Skidmore College. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, an M.A. from the Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), and a B.A. from Universidad Iberoamericana.