Exhibit reflects on how the Latin West was won - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - epic-size exhibition “The Arts in Latin America: 1492-1820.”

“Awe is what the Spanish clergy and conquerors wished to inspire in the cultures that already populated Latin America. The colonizers couldn’t make that motive any clearer than with the sort of larger-than-life Jesus on the cross, commissioned in 1792 for a Brazilian church that was (and still is) its home.

This is big-budget scriptural theater. The Christ figure, done with great attention to detail in the favored medium of painted wood, is a dazzling exercise in ornate scrolls and intricate detail. Whether you believe in the symbolism of this work or not, you are likely to be seduced by its visual power”

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