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Las castas.Casta painting showing 16 racial groupings. Anonymous, 18th century, oil on canvas, 148×104 cm, Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlán, Mexico Casta (Spanish:) is a term which means "lineage" in Spanish and Portuguese and has historically been used as a racial and social identifier.
Casta painting by Miguel Cabrera, Español e India, Mestizo. 1763. Miguel Mateo Maldonado y Cabrera (1695–1768) was a Mestizo [1] painter born in Oaxaca but moved to Mexico City, the capital of Viceroyalty of New Spain. [2] During his lifetime, he was recognized as the greatest painter in all of New Spain.
Casta painting showing 16 hierarchically arranged, mixed-race groupings, with indios mecos set outside of the orderly set of "civilized" society. Ignacio Maria Barreda, 1777. Real Academia Española de la Lengua, Madrid. Luis de Mena, Virgin of Guadalupe and castas, 1750. Another single-canvas casta painting with similarities to Barreda's.
Luis de Mena, Virgin of Guadalupe and castas, 1750 Gallery formerly arranged to recall the Cabinet of Natural History that preceded the museum, with Mena's painting. His most famous painting is in the Museo de América in Madrid, which as of May 2024 is no longer on view. It is much reproduced as an exemplar of the casta painting genre.
De Chino cambujo e India, Loba. Miguel Cabrera De negro e india, lobo (from a black man and an Amerindian woman, a Lobo is begotten). Anon. 18th c. Mexico. Lobo (fem. Loba) (Spanish for "wolf") is a racial category for a mixed-race person used in Mexican paintings illustrating the caste system in 17th- and 18th-century Spanish America.
He also produced two sets of casta paintings in the 1770s, not mentioned in the works of art historians Manuel Toussaint and Francisco Pérez Salazar, who are silent on the genre of casta painting. One set of his casta paintings is signed and the other is identified as Magón's by María Concepción García Sáiz. [2]
Denver Museum of Art. Francisco Clapera (1746–1810) was a Spanish painter who after training in Spain lived and worked in New Spain. Here he created casta paintings, a distinctive Mexican genre that depicts in sets of consecutive images scenes of racial mixing among the Indians, Spaniards and Africans who lived in the Spanish colony. [1]
José de Páez (1720–1790) [1] was a Mexican painter of religious images, a history painting of the destruction of Mission Santa Cruz de San Sabá in Texas, and a set of casta paintings in the 18th century. He was of Baltazar de Páez, José is identified student of Nicolás Enríquez. [2] He married Rosalía Caballero in 1753. [3]
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