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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 ...
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 ...
Luis de Mena, Virgin of Guadalupe and castas, 1750, a frequently reproduced painting, uniquely uniting the image Virgin and a depiction of the casta system. Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe became a recognized symbol of Catholic Mexicans.
Art historians say Leonardo da Vinci hid an optical illusion in the Mona Lisa's face: she doesn't always appear to be smiling. There's question as to whether it was intentional, but new research ...
In a break from religious paintings of the preceding centuries, casta paintings were a secular art form. Only one known casta painting by a relatively unknown painter, Luis de Mena, combines castas with Mexico's Virgin of Guadalupe; this being an exception. Some of Mexico's most distinguished artists painted casta works, including Miguel ...
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 ...
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