art of new Spain; Spanish colonies in the Americas definitions

biombos

folding freestanding screens

casta painting

paintings from New Spain showing people of mixed races

enconchados

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 paint

Escudo

A framed painting worn below the neck in a colonial Spanish painting

Mestizo

someone of mixed European and Native American descent

Viceroy

a person appointed to rule a country as the deputy of the sovereign state