Mermaids and Incan princesses stitched on Indigenous dresses. Painting techniques that faked the look of fabric. Silk threads covered in silver on a priest's chasuble. Artificial beauty marks that could cure migraines.
Go inside the exhibition "Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America” with Rosario I. Granados, the Blanton's Marilynn Thoma Associate Curator, as she takes you through the moments and details you shouldn't miss.
"Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America" features 17th- and 18th-century paintings, sculptures, and clothing from across the Spanish Americas. On view at the Blanton Museum of Art through January 8, 2023.
Learn more about this exhibition here → blantonmuseum.org/PaintedCloth