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A Guide to Latin American Special Collections at the GRI

An introduction to the research materials and collections at the Getty Research Institute related to the art and cultural histories of Latin America from the colonial period to the present-day.



Detail of America, about 1591, Philippe Galle and Johannes Stradanus. Engraving from the series Nova Reperta. Getty Research Institute, 2020.PR.2

Allegorical Figures and Maps

This subsection consists of materials that, while not entirely focused on the Americas, contain within them illustrations like allegorical representations of ‘America’ or maps that could be of interest to researchers working on Latin American topics. Materials are listed in alphabetical order. 

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America. [ca. 1591]

  • Relevant Contributors: Johannes Stradanus, Théodore Galle

Americae Retectio. [ca. 1589 or 1592]

  • Relevant Contributors: Adriaen Collaert, Johannes Stradanus

Cédula dada por el emperador Quauhtemotzín para el reparto de la Laguna grande de Tescuco en 1523. [1943]

  • Relevant Contributor: Cuauhtemoc, Emperor of Mexico
  • Not digitized - Facsimile copy published in 1943 of a 1523 original 

[The Four Continents]. [ca. 1589-1611]

  • Relevant Contributor: Crispijn van de Passe
  • Not digitized

Habiti antichi, ouero, Raccolta di figvre delineate dal gran Titiano, e da Cesare Vecellio suo fratello, diligentemente intagliate, conforme alle nationi del mondo : libro vtilissimo a pittori, dissegnatori, scultori, architetti & ad ogni curioso, e peregrino ingegno. [1664]

  • Related to: Mexico, Peru, United States of America
  • Relevant Contributor: Cesare Vecellio
  • Section Relevant to Latin America: Book Ten

Habitus variarum orbis gentium = Habitz de nations estrãges = Trachten mancherley Völcker des Erdskreysz. [1581]

  • Relevant Contributors: Jean Jacques Boissard, Julius Goltzius
  • Section Relevant to Latin America: frontispiece 

Le grand escalier de Versailles [1679-1683]

  • Relevant Contributors: Claude-Auguste Berey, Etienne Baudet
  • Not digitized

Les Indes Orientales et Occidentales, et autres lieux : représenté en très-belles figures, qui montrent au naturel les peuples, moeurs, religions, fêtes, sacrifices, mosquées, idoles, richesses, ceremonies,festins, tribunaux, supplices et esclavages ... / par le Sr. Romein de Hooge. [ca. 1685]

  • Related to: Brazil, The Caribbean, Mexico, Peru, 
  • Relevant Contributors: Pieter van der Aa, Romeyn de Hooghe
  • Sections Relevant to Latin America: pp. 7, 15–17, 69–71, 79–91

Neu-eröffnetes Amphi-theatrum: worinnen nach dem uns bekanten gantzen Welt-Kreiss, alle Nationen mach ihrem habit, in saubern figuren repräsentiret [1723-1724]

  • Relevant Contributor: Johann Michael Funck
  • Section Relevant to Latin America: vol. 3, pp. 283–407
  • Part of the Gutiérrez Collection of Books

Della novissima iconologia / di Cesare Ripa Pervgino [1624-1625]

  • Relevant Contributor: Cesare Ripa    
  • Section Relevant to Latin America: pp. 442–443

Prosopographia, sive, Virtvtvm, animi, corporis, bonorvm externorvm, vitiorvm, et affectvvm variorvm delineatio / imaginibvs accvrate expressa a Philippo Gallaeo, et monochromate ab eodem edita ; distichis à Cornelio Kiliano Dufflaeo illustrata.
Relevant Contributor: Philippe Galle

  • Section Relevant to Latin America: p. 93

Raccolta di le piu illustri et famose citta di tutto il mondo. [1599?]

  • Related to: Mexico, Peru
  • Relevant Contributor: Francesco Valesio
  • Sections Relevant to Latin America: pl. 280 (Cusco), pl. 283 (Mexico)

Reisen van Nicolaus de Graaff, na de vier gedeeltens des werelds, als Asia, Africa, America en Europa [1701] 

  • Related to: Brazil
  • Relevant Contributor: Nicolaus de Reysen
  • Sections Relevant to Latin America: frontispiece, pp. 26–31

Theatrvm orbis terrarvm / Abrahami OrtelI Antverp. geographi regii ; tabvlis aliqvot novis vitaq. avctoris illvstratvm. [1603]

  • Relevant Contributor: Abraham Ortelius 
  • Sections Relevant to Latin America: title page, pp. 50–51, 66–84 

[Title plate to Nova Reperta] [ca. 1591].

  • Relevant Contributors: Adriaen Collaert, Johannes Stradanus

 

 

 

 

 



America, about 1591, Philippe Galle and Johannes Stradanus. Engraving from the series Nova Reperta. Getty Research Institute, 2020.PR.2