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'''Juan Correa''' (Mexico City, c. 1646 - Mexico City, 1716) [[Mexican]] [[painter]], s. XVII - s. XVIII. | '''Juan Correa''' (Mexico City, c. 1646 - Mexico City, 1716) [[Mexican]] [[painter]], s. XVII - s. XVIII. | ||
| − | ''La entrada de Jesús a Jerusalén y La Asunción de la Virgen'' (At the Mexico City Cathedral) are considered his best works . | + | ''La entrada de Jesús a Jerusalén y La Asunción de la Virgen'' (At the Mexico City Cathedral) are considered his best works . Among his few known secular paintings are ''The Four Elements'', ''The Liberal Arts'' (Mexico City, Franz Mayer, priv. col.), ''The Four Continents'' and ''The Meeting Between Cortes and Moctezuma'' (Mexico City, Banco Nacional de Mexico). |
[[Miguel Cabrera]] (1695 - 1768), ''[[Cristóbal de Villalpando]] (c. 1649-1714) and Juan Correa are the best-known painters of New Spain.'' [http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-156447415.html] | [[Miguel Cabrera]] (1695 - 1768), ''[[Cristóbal de Villalpando]] (c. 1649-1714) and Juan Correa are the best-known painters of New Spain.'' [http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-156447415.html] | ||
Revision as of 18:02, April 18, 2008
Juan Correa (Mexico City, c. 1646 - Mexico City, 1716) Mexican painter, s. XVII - s. XVIII.
La entrada de Jesús a Jerusalén y La Asunción de la Virgen (At the Mexico City Cathedral) are considered his best works . Among his few known secular paintings are The Four Elements, The Liberal Arts (Mexico City, Franz Mayer, priv. col.), The Four Continents and The Meeting Between Cortes and Moctezuma (Mexico City, Banco Nacional de Mexico).
Miguel Cabrera (1695 - 1768), Cristóbal de Villalpando (c. 1649-1714) and Juan Correa are the best-known painters of New Spain. [1]
His paintings are specially remarkable for their fine, broad composition, expression, and life-like figures, as well as for their good perspective and effective groupings. [2]
See also
External links
- Andrés Blaisten Museum
- Painting and drawing The Franz Mayer Museum.
Bibliography
- Painting/Drawing Leibsohn, Dana, and Barbara Mundy, Vistas: Spanish American Visual Culture, 1520-1820.
- "Juan Correa, su vida y su obra." by Elisa Vargaslugo, UNAM.