Castas Painting.
Teresa Castelló Yturbide, sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Jacques Lafaye, Margarita de Orellana, María José Rodilla, Edward J. Sullivan
New Spain’s society was based on a caste system that gave rise to a pictorial genre which is both aesthetically pleasing and an invaluable source of information about the period. The society was marked by mestizaje—racial syncretism—and castas painting emerged as a way of representing differences and exploring the essence of Otherness.PRICES DO NOT INCLUDE SHIPPING
