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Colonial Art
Colonial art in Mexico represents, in large measure, European artistic movements of the period – renaissance, baroque, rococo and neoclassic – with variations, and symbolizes the historic fusion of many different cultures. Often religious, Mexico's colonial art manifested the syncretic combination of pre-conquest indigenous imagery and ceremony with Spanish Catholicism.

The Museum's Collection is comprised of religious paintings including works on tin (ex-votos, retablos), antique textiles, religious statues and richly carved furnishings.


  
Sacred Heart of Jesus

Sacred Heart of Jesús
19th century

La Pietá

La Pietá
19th century

The Immaculate Conception

The Immaculate Conception
late 17th century

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