Xi Qiu APAH Baroque Art + Spanish Art colonies

·     Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza

·     Master of Calamarca, Angel with Arquebus, Asiel Timor Die

·     Circle of the González Family, Screen with the Siege of Belgrade, Screen with a hunting scene

·     Miguel Gonzgález, Virgin of Guadalupe

·     Attributed to Juan Rodriguez, Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo

oil on canvas

panel from the first known series of casta paintings;may not have been a comleted set

soanish social hierarchy with the european ancestry at the top;sixteen different gradations of social scale

spanish blood linked to civilizing forces;wearing lavish costumes

Biombo

folding free standing screens

·      Casta paintings

paintings from new spain showing people of mixed races

Encochados

shell-inlay paintings; tiny fragments of mother of pearl placed onto a wooden support and canvas and covered with a yellowish tint and thin glazes of painting

Escudo

a framed painting worn below the neck in colonial spanish painting

Mestizo

someone of mixed european and native american descent

Viceroy

the governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of a king or sovereign