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Show Mexican Art Treasures Among World's Richest If Ihe rare paintings and other ::rt treasure.? that are In the churches of .Mexico or have been ula-ed in I I . ! : 1 1 ; to irevent theft or destruction were gathered Into one collection, they would astonish the world, declared Jose Sepulveda, an artist of Madrid, who has been making a study of these relics. He pointed out that the Catholic church was very rich in the Seven-tenth Seven-tenth century and amply able to send works of art of great value to Mexico and other colonies. It was also the period when art flourished flour-ished at Its best In Spain when Murillo lived and Seville was a great art center From about the year 1000 there lived in Mexico for 40 years two artists ar-tists who were skilled copyists and imitators. These were Raltasar Kchnve and his wife, known as La Sumya. They painted in both the Italian and Dutch styles and Echave often Imitated Titian fairly well. Other Spanish artists who emigrated emi-grated to this country and lived and painted here throughout the Seventeenth Sev-enteenth century established what Is known as the old Mexican school and left many good works many so good that it is not easy to establish es-tablish their Identity and distinguish distin-guish them from the Old world work. |