Colonial Heritage

INDEX

Important concepts about Colonial Heritage 3

Colonial Age: Past and present 4

Questionnaire about Colonial Heritage 5-6

Image analysis: “Cristo de Mayo”. 7-8

Reflection 9

Bibliography 10

Concept chart

Colonial paintings 9 Colonial Monuments 2 Colonial Convent 3

Christ and Virgins 8 Colonial Heritage 1 Colonial Construction 4

Colonial Church 7 Colonial Architecture 6 Colonial Art 5

5-9-8: that you paint in painting a Christ and virgins.

Comparative: Past and Present

PAST PRESENT

CHURCH The Catholic Church is who is sponsoring the development of all the arts. In colonial times, many of the temples and monasteries, were made with shapes resembling imposing fortresses.

Currently the churches are simpler, they don t look like fortifications. No art is used inside. Only in some cases, religious images but not recharged.

CONVENT The interests that motivated the creation of convents during the Colony are varied. Not only the religious element was crucial to the foundation of colonial monasteries by different religious orders, but also there was the desire to protect women. That is why in these construction where very used stone and wood.

Convents are a legacy of colonial times. Currently remain some that still stand and have been used as Schools, Boarding Schools and Hospitals. Today only remain as religious site for nuns and priests.

CONSTRUCTIONS No glass and iron only used on nails and locks. In Chile, throughout the colonial architecture of adobe and wood carpentry predominates. Organic materials, soil and wood is used. Mud and straw, adobe, wood and baked clay for floors and roofs. Stone and brick are used only on special occasions. Seismic status Chile requires a design of buildings. These are solid, low and extended, generally made of adobe, with large gates. Sometimes also used bricks.

Nowadays many durable and resistant materials used for earthquakes. We have lot of high constructions.

Colonial Heritage

1. Where is present the Colonial Heritage in Chile?

Answer: houses, building, streets, art and artifacts present in the museum

2. What was one of the purposes of the colonial art?

To evangelize the indigenous population

3. What was one of the main artistic styles from

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