Miguel Cabrera (painter)

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Miguel Mateo Maldonado y Cabrera (born February 27, 1695 in Oaxaca , † May 16, 1768 in Mexico City ) was a New Spanish Baroque painter . Along with José de Ibarra, he is considered the most important representative of colonial painting of the 18th century.

life and work

Miguel Cabrera was an orphan and probably a mixed race child from Oaxaca . Around 1719 he settled in Mexico City. The local bishop Manuel José Rubio y Salinas , a member of the Jesuit order , recognized his talent and promoted him. His most frequently treated motif was Our Lady of Guadalupe , but he is better known internationally today because of his Casta paintings, which - rather uncritically - deal with the relationships between Spaniards and mestizos . Other important works by Cabrera were his portrait of the poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz , as well as the Via Crucis in the Cathedral of Mexico City and the Martirio de San Sebastian in the Church of Taxco . From 1753 until his death he headed the newly founded Painting Academy in Mexico City; in 1756 he published the art theoretical work Maravilla americana y conjunto de raras maravillas . He was buried in the Santa Inés Church in Mexico City.

gallery

  • San Juan Diego , 1751

  • Manuel José Rubio y Salinas , 1751

  • Manuel José Rubio y Salinas , 1758

  • The divine shepherdess , around 1760

  • Santa Gertrudis , 1763

  • Casta picture: Spaniards and mulatto women , around 1763

literature

  • Abelardo Carrillo y Gariel: El pintor Miguel Cabrera. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México 1966.
  • Javier Castro Mantecón, Manuel Zárate Aquino: Miguel Cabrera, pintor oaxaqueño del siglo XVIII. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Dirección de Monumentos Coloniales, México 1958.
  • Beatriz del Carmen Cuevas: Historia del Convento de Sta. Ines y creación del Museo JLC. Website of the Museo José Luis Cuevas (Spanish).

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personal data
SURNAME Cabrera, Miguel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maldonado y Cabrera, Miguel Mateo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1695
PLACE OF BIRTH Oaxaca de Juarez
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1768
Place of death Mexico city