Latin American Art

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Church of Santo Domingo, reconstructed after 1650. Cuzco, Peru

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Fray Diego de Valades, Allegorical Atrium from Rhetorica Christiana. 1579

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Open chapel plan

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Royal chapel. 1570. Cholula, Mexico

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Open chapel at the convent of San Nicolas de Actopan. Mid-sixteenth venture. Actopan, Mexico

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Open chapel at the Convent of San Luis Obispo de Tlalmanalco. Mid-sixteenth century. Tlalmanalco, Mexico

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Posa chapel from convent of San Miguel de Huejotzingo. 1547-71. Huejotzingo, Mexico

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Atrial cross from the church of San Augustin de Acolman. 1555_57. Acolman, Mexico

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Exterior view of the church of San Miguel de Huejotzingo. 1547-71. Huejotzingo, Mexico

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Exterior view of the church of San Augustin de Acolman. 1555-57. Acolman, Mexico

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Exterior view of the church of San Augustin de Acolman. 1555-57. Acolman, Mexico

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Exterior view of the church of La Natividad de Nuestra Senora de Tepoztlan. 1559-88. Tepoztlan, mexico

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Church of La Natividad de Nuestra Senora de Tepoztlan. 1559-88. Tepoztlan, Mexico

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Atrium of the Church o and convent of La Asuncion, Chucuito. 1581-1608. Chucuito, Peru

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Atrial Cross of the Church and Convent of La Asuncion, Chucuito. 1581-1608. Chucuito, Peru. Bottom are Mary, st John the evangelist

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Exterior view of the Church of San Pedro, Andahuaylillas. ca. 1600. Andahuaylillas, Peru

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Interior view of the Church of San Pedro, Andahuaylillas. ca. 1600. Andahuaylillas, Peru

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Ornate ceiling of?

What is this wood ribbing called?

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Church of San Pedro, Andahuaylillas. ca. 1600. Andahuaylillas, Peru

Mudejar par y nudillo

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Juan Gerson. Choir loft paintings. Church of San Francisco de Tecalmachalco. 1562

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Luis de Riano. Two Paths. Church of San Pedro, Andahuaylillas. 1618-26

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Descent from the Cross. Church of San Andres de Epazoyucan. 1550s. Epazoyucan, Mexico.

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Immaculate Conception. Convent of San Miguel de Huejotzingo. 1547-71. Huejotzingo, Mexico.

St Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus

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Cloister paintings. Convent of San Salvador de Malinalco. ca. 1571. Malinalco, Mexico

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Nave Paintings. Church of San Miguel Arcangel de Ixmiquilpan. ca. 1570. Ixmiquilpan, Mexico.

Dealings between otomi vs chichimec peoples. Garden of paradise and war sacrifices, warriors, and victims. Tezcatlipoca is Aztec patron of war, paralleled to Archangel Michael welding sword.

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Cloister stairway murals. Convent of San Nicolas de Actopan. ca. 1575. Actopan, Mexico.

At bottom of staircase, Fray Martin Acecado. Two indigenous kneeling people, Juan Atocpa, and Pedro Izcuicuitlapico (possibly the painters). Potentially an Aztec genealogy depicting Augustin Ian heritage and hierarchy.

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Catechism of Fray Pedro de Gente. 1574

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What, what people made this, when

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Codex Bodley (aka Codex Nuu Tnoo). Mixtec. Before 1521

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What and when was the Treaty of Tordesillas?

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Pope giving authority over the people they conquered as long as they convert. Divided the discovered lands outside Europe between Portuguese and Spanish empires. 1494

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What was Patron Real

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Royal patronage. The crown had the authority to appoint bishops and archbishop.

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What and when was the New Laws of the Indies?

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1542, series of laws and regulations approved by the King of Spain to regulate the Spaniards who were enslaving the natives

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What was previously where the Santo Domingo church?

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Inca Coricancha. Previously the temple of the sun, covered in gold.

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What is a Didactic Role?

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A teaching role

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What is a Tilma

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Aztec robes tied behind neck

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Mudejar ceilings

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Intricate, carved, polychrome, Islamic inspired painted ceilings.

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What are crenellated walls

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Pointed, castle like wall edges

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What is a pediment

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Triangle sitting on top of triumphal arch

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What are Atlandids

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People as columns

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Where is Lake titicaca, what myths are associated with?

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El Collao , Chicuito (Southern part of Lake). Creation belief starts here. Inti (God) sends his kids, Manco Capac (son), and Mama Ocllo (daughter) to earth there to teach people how to live off land and establish towns in Andes.

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What were the reducciones

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Viceroy Francisco de Toledo ordered increase of conversion efforts, takes the duty away from Dominicans to jesuits. Ordered consolidation of indigenous people. Forced out of houses, to leave ancestral lands.

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What were Quipu

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Knotted string devices for memorization

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What is an entablature

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A horizontal continuous line/stripe on a building supported bt columns or a wall

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What are sargas

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Portable teaching canvases

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What is fresco

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Painting on wet plaster

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Fresco secco

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Painting on dry plaster

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Papel de Amate

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Paper from bark of fig tree

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Grisaille

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Painting in black, white, and gray

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Tira de Tepechpan. Detail. Finished 1596

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Fray Bernardino de Sahagun, Florentino Codex: Book twelve, fol. 26. 1575-80

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Codex Mendoza. 1541

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Map of Amoltepec. 1580

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Arms of the Descendents of Inca Tupa Yupanqui. 1600-1630

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Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayla. AMERINDIAN artists from Nueva coronica y buen gobierno. 1615

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Juan Bautista. Christ at the age of twelve. 1590-1600

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Mystic Mass of Saint Gregory. 1539

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Quero cup. Late sixteenth century. Used for drinking chicha (corn beer). Andean leaders would give these cups as religious peace offerings or tribute

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Uncu. 17th century. Wool, silk, and metallic thread

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Cristobal de Villalpando. View of the Zocalo. 1695

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View of Lima. 1680

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Palace od Cortes. Mid sixteenth century. Cuernavaca, Mexico

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Casa de Montejo. 1549. Merida, mexico

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Ex-Voto painting with view of Cuzco. 1650

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Casa de Los Cuatro Bustos. Ca. 1600. Cuzco, Peru

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Casa de Pilaros. Ca. 1600. Lima, peru

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Antonio Ramirez. The construction of the cathedral of Santiago de Los Caballero de Guatemala in Antigua. 1678

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Claudio de Arciniega and others. Interior of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption. Begun 1573. Mexico City, Mexico

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Altarscreen of Our Lady of Solitude. Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption. 1570-80. Mexico City, Mexico

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Altarscreen of Our Lady of Solitude. Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption. 1670-80. Mexico City, Mexico

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Luis gomez de Trasmonte, Rodrigo Diaz de Aguilera, and Cristobal de Medina Vargas. Facade of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption. 1672-78 and 1684-89. Mexico City, Mexico

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Diego Arias de la Cerda and Francisco Dominguez de Chavez y Arellano. Facade of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption. 1583-1654. Cuzco, Peru

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Francisco Becerra and others. Interior of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption. Begun 1582. Lima, Peru

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Juan Martinez de Arrona and Pedro de Nogueira. Facade of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption 1628-45. Lima, Peru

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Pedro de Nogueira, Asensio de Salas, and Bernardo de Robles. Altarscreen of the virgin of the Immaculate Conception. 1654. Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption. Lima, Peru

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Facade of the Church of San Francisco. Begun 1535. Quito, Ecuador

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Interior of church of San Francisco. Begun 1535. Quito, Ecuador

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Constantino de Vasconcelos and Manuel de Escobar. Main Cloister of the Monestary of San Francisco. 1557-1678. Lima, Peru

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Constantino de Vasconcelos and Manuel de Escobar. Facade of the Church of San Francisco. 1656-78. Lima, Peru

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Facade of the Church of La Compania. 1590-1660. Arequipa, Peru

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Rosary Chapel of the Church of Santo Domingo. 1632-1690. Puebla, Mexico

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Interior of a nuns cell in the Convent of Santa Catalina. Begun 1568. Arequipa, Peru

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Church if Santa Catalina. 1579 with extensions in the 17th century

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Cristobal de Medina Vargas. Facade of the Church of Santa Teresa la Antigua. 1678-84. Mexico City, Mexico

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Pedro de Arrieta. Basilica of Guadeloupe. 1695-1709. Mexico City, Mexico

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Francisco Jimenez de Siguenza. Sanctuary of Copacabana . Begun 1610. Copacabana, Bolivia. Virgen of Copacabana carved by Francisco Tito Yupanqui. A divine light

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What is an uncu

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Incan male tunic

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What is a cabildo

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Town council buildings

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What is a parian

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Building occupied by merchants

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What is a traza

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Layout of a city

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What is Casas viejas

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Houses viceroy

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What are loggias

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Part of architecture with one or more open sites, with once facing a garden

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Plateresque style

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Spanish style. Gothic classical style. Highly ornate

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What are herms

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Half person, half plaster figures

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Engaged columns

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Columns stuck to walls

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Miradores

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Balconies

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Rustification

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Stone/brick shaped carving

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Mannerist

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Classical proportions, but stretching out.

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Who were alarifes

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Cathedral builders. Masons, stone carvers, clerics, architects, etc

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Who was the maestro mayor

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Title given by the viceroy. Seniormost/most respected architect of the city

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Cantaros

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Stone masons

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Albanileros

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Brick layers

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Ensambladores

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People who put together and assemble altascreens

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Chiluea

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Grey, local stone. Not very strong

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Tezontle

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Reddish volcanic stone. Strong

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Solomonic columns

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Kind of divine columns, spiral columns.

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Mixtelinear pediments

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Straight + curved lines

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Pinnacles

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Points on top of columns

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Trilobe

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Shell like shape

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Quincha barrel vault

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Indigenous material, withstood earthquakes

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Planiform style

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Or Andean or Mestizo baroque. Flat (planiform) carving. Looks like lace/textile. Vines, fruits, vegetal, pumas, animals, Christian and indigenous items. (feathers, etc)

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Locutorio

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Little chambers made to have conversations with the outside world