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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.
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.
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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]
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]
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.
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.