Miguel Cabrera (painter)

For other people named Miguel Cabrera, see Miguel Cabrera (disambiguation).
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Maldonado and the second or maternal family name is Cabrera.
Casta painting by Miguel Cabrera, Español e India, Mestizo. 1763.

Miguel Mateo Maldonado y Cabrera (1695–1768) was a Mestizo[1] painter born in Oaxaca but moved to Mexico City, the capital of Viceroyalty of New Spain.[2] During his lifetime, he was recognized as the greatest painter in all of New Spain. He created religious and secular art for the Catholic Church and wealthy patrons. His casta paintings, depicting interracial marriage among Amerindians, Spaniards and Africans, are considered among the genre's finest.[3] Cabrera's paintings range from tiny works on copper to enormous canvases and wall paintings. He also designed altarpieces and funerary monuments.[4]

  1. ^ Inmaculada Rodríguez Moya (2003). La mirada del virrey: iconografía del poder en la Nueva España. Jaume I University. p. 70. ISBN 84-8021-418-X.
  2. ^ Bailey, Gauvin Alexander. Art of Colonial Latin America. London: Phaidon Press 2005, p. 418
  3. ^ "LACMA purchases long-lost masterpiece, once kept under a couch". Los Angeles Times. 2015-04-01. Retrieved 2015-04-01.
  4. ^ Bargellini, Clara. "Cabrera, Miguel." In Davíd Carrasco (ed). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, vol 1. New York : Oxford University Press, 2001