Reprise: Fashion & the Body in Casta Paintings With Babelito

Reprise episode y'all. Joy and Jasmine talk to Babelito from Latinos Who Lunch about 18th-century Casta paintings, artworks based on the hierarchical system of racial classification in New Spain. In this podcast crossover, Joy, Jasmine and Babelito analyze the depiction of the body and fashion in four Casta paintings from Mexico.

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Figure 1. Miguel Cabrera (Mexican, 1695-1768), De español e indio, Mestizo, 1763. Oil on Canvas

Figure 2. Francisco Clapera (Spanish born, 1746-1810), De Espanol, e India, nace Mestiza, c. 1775. Denver Art Museum. Gift of the Collection of Frederick and Jan Mayer

Figure 3. Francisco Clapera (Spanish born, 1746-1810), De Gibaro, y Mulata, Tente en el ayre, c. 1775. Denver Art Museum. Gift of the Collection of Frederick and Jan Mayer

Figure 4. Ignacio María Barreda (Mexican 1750-1800), The Mexican Castes (Las castas mexicanas), 1777. Oil on canvas. Madrid, Spain

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Resources

Casta Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casta

Katzew, Ilona. Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-century Mexico. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

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