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Spanning over two continents, starting in Mexico and extending all the way down to South America, the art produced during the Spanish colonial period consisted of paintings, sculptures, and decorative artifacts. When Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World in 1492, all that had previously been in the Americas before that time is dubbed pre-Columbian. The Spanish colonial period comes to an end in the mid-1820s when Spain's grasp on her colonies in the Caribbean is lost and Latin American independence is achieved by numerous nations today.