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2. Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz - Wikipedia

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   Morlete Ruiz's paintings are significant to Mexican art history because Morlete Ruiz was one of the first artists to employ what would become standard elements of 18th century Casta painting. In his Casta sets, much could be determined about the status of the subjects based on their clothing, hair, and surroundings. His paintings featured the ...

3. Casta - Wikipedia

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   Las castas.Casta painting showing 16 racial groupings. Anonymous, 18th century, oil on canvas, 148×104 cm, Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlán, Mexico Casta (Spanish:) is a term which means "lineage" in Spanish and Portuguese and has historically been used as a racial and social identifier.

4. Miguel Cabrera (painter) - Wikipedia

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   Casta painting by Miguel Cabrera, Español e India, Mestizo. 1763. Miguel Mateo Maldonado y Cabrera (1695–1768) was a Mestizo [1] painter born in Oaxaca but moved to Mexico City, the capital of Viceroyalty of New Spain. [2] During his lifetime, he was recognized as the greatest painter in all of New Spain.

5. Luis de Mena - Wikipedia

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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.

6. Francisco Clapera - Wikipedia

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   Denver Museum of Art. Francisco Clapera (1746–1810) was a Spanish painter who after training in Spain lived and worked in New Spain. Here he created casta paintings, a distinctive Mexican genre that depicts in sets of consecutive images scenes of racial mixing among the Indians, Spaniards and Africans who lived in the Spanish colony. [1]

7. Coyote (racial category) - Wikipedia

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   The casta paintings by Miguel Cabrera (1763) show the place of the coyote in the idealized colonial racial hierarchy (sistema de castas). [1] In colonial Mexico, the term varied regionally, with "regional differences determin[ing] just how much native ancestry qualified a person to be a coyote."

8. Ignacio Maria Barreda - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

9. Mexican art - Wikipedia

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   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 ...