Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America

"The new Vistas website offers a gallery of high-resolution color images, each of them fully annotated, videos and interpretive essays on Vista’s six themes, along with discussion of related images, and a searchable bibliography on visual culture. This unique collection includes paintings, sculptures, architectural monuments, and objects of daily life from Spanish America between 1520 and 1820, the period from Conquest to Independence." Bilingual transcriptions of select colonial documents also available in the library, as well as a glossary and timeline.