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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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
José Joaquín Magón, produced two sets of 18th c. casta paintings; Luis de Mena [46] José de Mora (active in the first half of the 18th century) [4] Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz (1713–1772) [4] José de Páez (1720-ca 1790) [4] Antonio Pėrez de Aguilar (active in the mid-18th century) [4] Hipólito de Rioja (active in the 2nd half of the ...
Mena's only known casta painting links the Virgin of Guadalupe and the casta system, as well as depictions of fruits and vegetables and scenes of everyday life in mideighteenth-century Mexico. It is one of the most-reproduced examples of casta paintings, one of the small number that show the casta system on a single canvas rather than up to 16 ...
Luis Mena may refer to: Luis de Mena, 18th-century Mexican painter; Luis Mena (Nicaraguan politician) (Luis Mena Vado, c. 1865–1928), Nicaraguan politician; Luís Mena e Silva (1902–1963), Portuguese sport equestrian rider; Luis Rojas Mena (1917–2009), Mexican Roman Catholic bishop; Luis Mena Arroyo (1920–2009), Mexican Roman Catholic ...