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Colonial lifestyle
Culture during the
Colony
• During this period of time, the artistic
and cultural expresion reflected the
power and prestige of the Catholic
Church and the Spanish aristocracy in
The New Kingdom of Granada (c.
1548-1717). Known later as The
Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717–
1819).
Painting
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Gregorio Vasquez de Arce y
Ceballos
Gregorio Vasquez de Arce
y Ceballos (1638–1711)
is considered the greatest master of the colonial period. In his
lifetime he produced around five hundred paintings, mostly
devotional, with a technique that juxtaposed figures taken from
paintings by European masters using innovative materials found in
the New World. His depictions of the Trinity as a single figure with
four eyes and three faces, an innovation unique to Latin America,
would be later condemned as heretical in part because they
resembled Hindu deities.
The Sopo Archangels is a series of twelve painting, each featuring
an archangel (three canonical, plus eight apocryphal, and one
guardian) engulfed in a tenebrous (cloudy) background
Gabriel - Strength of God: The
archangel of divine salvation
Guardian Angel - Company of God:
The angel of children
Rafael - Medicine from God:
The divine healing
Education
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The first role, played by the Church in the New World was the evangelization.
Each expedition carried a friar, who was in charge of the conversion of natives to
the Catholic faith. Franciscans, Augustinians, Jesuits and Dominicans arrived in
New Granada with the conquerors.
Years later, when most of the indigenous communities had been converted to
Christianity, the Church played an important role in educating the population.
Several communities were distinguished by their desire to create institutions of
education and evangelization.
The Society of Jesus founded several schools, including the “San Bartolomé”
School, and laid the groundwork for the creation of today's “Javeriana”
University.
Jesuit missions organized evangelization of the Indians. The missions were small
communities that developed around the education and agriculture.
In 1580, the Dominicans founded the University of Santo Tomas. Other
communities, such as the Augustinians and Franciscans, were responsible for the
evangelization of indigenous people in remote areas to urban centers.
Fashion
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During the colonial era costumes for rich women was quite striking especially in a
city like Santa Fe de Bogota, where the latest fashions came easily because it was
near to the cities with large commercial ports. on the other hand, is the style of
Creole women who also wanted to impose monochromatic fashion and black
shoes.
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In general, the female costume was white color and also used a variety of light
colors printed in simple materials such as cotton and as expensive as silk.
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The fashion of the upper classes was very similar to European dresses "princess
cut" and handmade embroidery and their shoes were made of colorful canvas.
under dresses they usually wore an underskirt the same color as her dress.
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The men wore very tight pants and jackets with a white shirt, and for gala
occasions was very similar but with jackets that had two tails behind.
Music
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Gutierrez Frenandez Hidalgo and Jose Gutierrez Frenandez Cascante were among
the first composers. They were chapel masters and church music composers.
... Carols were simple melodic and sad songs with lyrics referring to all kinds of
reasons but dominated the verses of adoration to the Christ Child, many of them
still remain.
Secular music was dominated by rhythms imported from Europe and was for the
upper class.
At parties and gatherings was dancing the minuet, a French popular dance from
the sixteenth-century , the Breton instrumental passe-pied, the Contradance,
fandango, The Andalusian dance of the seventeenth-century, and the Bunde the
predecessor of bambuco and torbellino.
The musical instruments used in the interpretation of sacred music were the
organ, the bassoon and the harp. To interpret the secular music were played the
harpsichord, the guitar, the vihuelón and the Creole harp.
Literature
• Juan Castellanos, Fray Pedro Simón,
Juan Rodriguez Freyle were the most
important writers during the colonial
time in the New Granada for their
literary works: Elegías de varones
ilustres de Indias, Noticias historiales
de las conquistas de tierra firme
oticias historiales de las conquistas de
tierra firme en las Indias Occidentales
y el Carnero, respectively.