“To understand this practice better, Mexican colonial art specialist Maria Montenegro spoke with MND. “Exvotos in Mexico are offerings given to a deity.” In the form of “small oil paintings,” explains the specialist, the practice can be traced to 16th-century Italy. However, it arrived in present-day Mexico with the Spanish invasion of the Americas.”
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