The Flora and Fauna in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Mexican Casta Paintings
Description:
The primary objective of this thesis is to identify patterns of appearance among the flora and fauna of selected eighteenth-century New Spanish casta paintings. The objectives of the thesis are to determine what types of flora and fauna are present within selected casta paintings, whether the flora and fauna's provenance is Spanish or Mexican and whether there are any potential associations of particular flora and fauna with the races being depicted in the same composition. I focus my flora an…
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Date:
May 2006
Creator:
Torres, Anita Jacinta