José de Páez
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José de Páez was a Mexican painter of religious images, a history painting of the destruction of Mission Santa Cruz de San Sabá in Texas, and a set of casta paintings in the 18th century. He was of Ba
The destruction of the mission of San Sabá in the province of Texas, ca. 1765.
San Juan Nepomuceno. Oil on copper. Art Museum of San Antonio
Holy heart with saint Ignacio de Loyola and Saint Luis Gonzaga. Oil on copper ca. 1770
Lobo (racial category)
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Lobo is a racial category for a mixed-race person used in Mexican paintings illustrating the caste system in 17th- and 18th-century Spanish America.
José de Páez
…the register of Indio – African mixtures, his set is typical in the array of terms that are not standardized in the genre. De Negro, e India, produce Loba; De Lobo e India, produce Chino Cambujo; De Cambujo, e India, produce Sambaigo; De Sambaigo, y Mulata, produce Calpamulata; De Calpamulato, y Coyota…
De Chino cambujo e India, Loba. Miguel Cabrera
De negro e india, lobo (from a black man and an Amerindian woman, a Lobo is begotten). Anon. 18th c. Mexico
De Lobo y Mestiza, Cambujo. Anon. 18th c. Mexico
Ignacio María Barreda Las castas mexicanas