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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.
Pages in category "Casta painters" ... Luis de Mena; This page was last edited on 29 April 2024, at 23:53 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
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 ...
Filipino September 21, 1982 Jose Cojuangco (1896–1976) Site House Legislator and businessman. In 1938, established and headed the Philippine Bank of Commerce. Cojuangco Ancestral House, Calle Paseo del Congreso, Malolos City: Filipino 2008 Jose Corazon de Jesus: Famous poet.
In 1901, the American Governor General William Howard Taft suggested that the U.S.-sponsored Philippine Commission name Rizal a national hero for Filipinos. Jose Rizal was an ideal candidate, favourable to the American occupiers since he was dead, and non-violent, a favourable quality which, if emulated by Filipinos, would not threaten the ...
Jose Rizal National Monument: Ermita, Manila: 1913: Entitled Motto Stella (guiding star), the monument is a memorial in Rizal Park made by Richard Kissling built to commemorate the executed Filipino nationalist, José Rizal. The monument contains his bones which were re-interred in 1912 [54]. Jose Rizal National Monument Marker MD-9-2013 ...