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The arts of colonial America produced along the Atlantic seaboard were dominated by the taste and fashions of the British Isles, mainly England but also Scotland and Ireland, and to a lesser extent, also of Germany and Huguenot France. Today we acknowledge with pride that our colonial material culture defines what is distinctive about our heritage. This month, an exhibition from Mexico opening at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston reveals to an American audience how the confluence of cultures in the viceregal period (1521-1821) contributed to the development of a new and distinctly Mexican colonial culture.
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