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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.
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 ...
It has a major collection of 18th c. casta paintings, one by Miguel Cabrera, who created a set of 16 large format casta paintings. The museum's most famous painting is by Mexican artist, Luis de Mena, of the Virgin of Guadalupe and castas on a single canvas. [2]
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 ...
Alonso López de Herrera (c. 1585-ca. 1675) [4] Andrés López (active between 1763 and 1811) [4] 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]
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Some were likely commissioned by Spanish functionaries as souvenirs of Mexico. A number of artists of the era created casta paintings, including Miguel Cabrera, José de Ibarra, Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz, Francisco Clapera, and Luis de Mena, but most casta paintings are unsigned.