{"id":42837,"date":"2015-09-23T14:33:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T14:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42837"},"modified":"2015-09-23T14:33:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T14:33:39","slug":"guadalupe-and-the-castas-the-power-of-a-singular-colonial-mexican-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42837","title":{"rendered":"Guadalupe and the Castas: The Power of a Singular Colonial Mexican Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/msem.ucpress.edu\/content\/31\/2\/218.article-info\" target=\"_blank\">Guadalupe and the Castas: The Power of a Singular Colonial Mexican Painting<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/msem.ucpress.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Mexican Studies\/Estudios Mexicanos<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/msem.ucpress.edu\/content\/31\/2.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 31, Number 2<\/a><br \/>\npages 218-247<br \/>\nDOI: 10.1525\/mex.2015.31.2.218<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.ucsb.edu\/people\/person.php?account_id=21\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sarah Cline<\/strong><\/a>, Research Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Santa Barbara<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A mid-eighteenth-century <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Casta\" target=\"_blank\">casta<\/a> painting by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luis_de_Mena\" target=\"_blank\">Luis de Mena<\/a> uniquely unites the image of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin of Guadalupe<\/a> and casta (mixed-race) groupings, along with scenes of everyday life in Mexico, and the natural abundance of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Spain\" target=\"_blank\">New Spain<\/a>. Reproduced multiple times, the painting has not been systematically analyzed. This article explores individual elements in their colonial context and the potential meanings of the painting in the modern era.<\/p>\n<p>Una pintura de Luis de Mena sobre las castas, de mediados del siglo xviii, re\u00fane de manera singular la imagen de la Virgen de Guadalupe, los agrupamientos de castas y escenas de la vida cotidiana en M\u00e9xico, junto con la abundancia natural de Nueva Espa\u00f1a. Aunque reproducida en m\u00faltiples ocasiones, la pintura no ha sido analizada sistem\u00e1ticamente. Este art\u00edculo explora sus elementos individuales en el contexto colonial y los significados potenciales de la pintura en la \u00e9poca moderna.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/msem.ucpress.edu\/content\/31\/2\/218.full-text.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guadalupe and the Castas: The Power of a Singular Colonial Mexican Painting Mexican Studies\/Estudios Mexicanos Volume 31, Number 2 pages 218-247 DOI: 10.1525\/mex.2015.31.2.218 Sarah Cline, Research Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara A mid-eighteenth-century casta painting by Luis de Mena uniquely unites the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe and casta (mixed-race) groupings, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,21,459,1196,8,103],"tags":[21155,21153,21154,21156],"class_list":["post-42837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-latincarib","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-mexico","tag-luis-de-mena","tag-mexican-studies","tag-sarah-cline","tag-virgin-of-guadalupe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42838,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42837\/revisions\/42838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}