Crown of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, known as the Crown of the Andes, Ca. 1660 (diadem) and ca. 1770 (arches), Made in Colombia, Colombian; Popayán, Gold, repoussé and chased; emeralds, 13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm), Gold, Spaniards arriving in sixteenth-century South America encountered a rich and complex indigenous tradition of gold working that had developed over the course of millennia. Many, if not most, Precolumbian works in gold were melted down in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, their precious metal repurposed for new religious and secular leaders both in Spain and the Americas
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