kavery's Journal

Смешанные браки в Мексике ( Casta painting)

A Spaniard and his Mexican Indian Wife and their Child, from a series on mixed race marriages in Mexico by Miguel Cabrera

Кабрера Мигель (1695 - 1768) - мексиканский художник, по национальности индеец сапотек. Начинал как самоучка, после перезда из провинции в столицу быстро приобрел известность и открыл свою мастерскую. Был ярким представителем креольского барокко. В 1753 году был избран почетным председателем первой частной академии искусств.

Detail from artist Miguel Cabrera's De Español y Albina, Torna Atrás (From Spaniard and Albino, Return Backwards), 1763.

Названия представителей национальных групп, рожденных в смешанных браках:
The most widely used terms were those referring to the mixtures between the three main groups: mestizo (метисы) (Spanish-Indian), mulatto (мулаты) (Spanish-Black), and zambo (самбо) or zambaigo (Black-Indian). In the seventeenth century two additional terms appeared: castizo (a light-skinned mestizo) and morisco (a light-skinned mulatto).By the eighteenth century a whole array of fanciful terms had been devised to refer to the different castas and their offspring. Several documents record these officially designed classifications, which include zoologically inspired terms such as lobo (wolf) and coyote, as well as names alluding to the racial indeterminacy of specific admixtures, including tente en el aire (hold-yourself-in-mid-air), and no te entiendo (I-don't-understand-you).

( Много иллюстраций )