![]() In fact, enconchados aroused interest of members of different social groups in New Spain between ca. The paintings mentioned by Ponz have been preserved to this day, and it can be affirmed that the reason why he found them so appealing relates to their materiality. ![]() By the time Ponz saw these enconchados, over 70 years had passed since they had been shipped from New Spain, so the fact that they were still in exhibition and caught Ponz’ attention is itself significant. ![]() These works were in the House of the Dukes of Infantado and Ponz referred to them as two series of medium colored paintings, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, worth seeing. In the 1776 volume of his work Journey Around Spain, the eminent scholar Antonio Ponz recorded two anonymous series of enconchados (mother-of-pearl inlaid paintings) depicting the Conquest of Mexico and the Battles of Alexandre Farnese (Figs.1 and 2).
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