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Luis de Mena was a Mexican artist who lived and worked predominantly in the middle of the eighteenth century. Mena painted religious works and has been described as "no more than a journeyman painter in 18th century Mexico." [1] [2] He signed a work entitled "Most Holy Mother of Light", now on display in the Serra Museum in San Diego ...
Jose Rizal, among many other things, was also a trained artist. He was trained at the Academia de Dibujo y Pintura in Manila and the training shop of Romualdo de Jesus in Santa Cruz, Manila. [1] He entered medical school at the University of Santo Tomas, where his sketching and drawing was refined by his anatomy classes.
Spanish father and Albina mother, torna atrás child.Miguel Cabrera, 1763 Mexico. Torna atrás (Spanish pronunciation: [toɾnaˈtɾas]) or tornatrás is a term used in 18th century Casta paintings to portray a mestizo or mixed-race person who showed phenotypic characteristics of only one of the "original races", such as European or Amerindian ancestry. [1]
Luis de Mena, Virgin of Guadalupe and castas, 1750. Museo de América, Madrid 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 Spanish father and Albina mother, Torna atrás.
Toussaint believed he might be the official painter for the Seminario de San Camila, [1] His 1777 single-canvas casta painting is an exemplar of this eighteenth-century genre of secular art. [2] It is similar in some ways to the 1750 single-canvas painting by Luis de Mena , which also includes outdoor scenes near Mexico City, particularly the ...
María Clara de los Santos is a fictional character in José Rizal's novel Noli Me Tángere (1887). The beautiful María Clara is the childhood sweetheart and fiancée of the protagonist, Crisóstomo Ibarra , who returns to his Filipino hometown of San Diego to marry her.
José Rizal (film) M. Medal of Honor (1999 video game) R. Rizal sa Dapitan; V. La vida de José Rizal This page was last edited on 15 January 2024, at 17:27 (UTC ...
In this poem, it is the Filipino youth who are the protagonists, whose "prodigious genius" making use of that education to build the future, was the "bella esperanza de la patria mía" (beautiful hope of the motherland). Spain, with "pious and wise hand" offered a "crown's resplendent band, offers to the sons of this Indian land."