Juan Correa facts for kids
Juan Correa (1646–1716) was a Mexican distinguished painter of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. His years of greatest activity were from 1671 to 1716. He was an Afro-Mexican, the son of a Mulatto or dark-skinned physician from Cádiz, Spain, and a free black woman, Pascuala de Santoyo. Correa "became one of the most prominent artists in New Spain during his lifetime, along with Cristóbal de Villalpando." Manuel Toussaint considers Correa and Villalpando the main exponents of the Baroque style of painting in Mexico. Correa was a very productive religious painter, with two major paintings in sacristy of the Cathedral of Mexico City, one of the Immaculate Conception and the other An Allegory of the Church. He also painted major works for the Jesuit church in Tepozotlan, Mexico (now the Museum of the Viceroyalty). According to Toussaint, Correa is "important in achieving a new quality, in the creative impulse he expresses, and which one cannot doubt embodies the eagerness of New Spain for an art of its own, breaking away from its Spanish lineage. Here New Spain attains its own personality, unique and unmistakable." Correa was José de Ibarra's teacher.
Gallery
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Woman of the Apocalypse
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The Four Parts of the World (Las Cuatro Partes del Mundo); Late 17th century; Medium: Oil painting on panel.
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The Liberal Arts (Las Artes Liberales). 6 sheets Byōbu, oil on canvas, 242 x 324, Franz Mayer Museum.
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The Four Elements (Los Cuatro Elementos). 6 sheets Byōbu, oil on canvas, 242 x 324, Franz Mayer Museum.
See also
In Spanish: Juan Correa (pintor novohispano) para niños
- Afro-Mexicans
- Castas
- Mexican art
