Andres islas painter biography

Andrés de Islas is a Mexican Old Masters painter who was born in the 18th Century.
Islas is most well known for his ambitious, large-format paintings found at the college in Mexico City, yet, was also adept at capturing expression and.
Best known for his portraits.

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Andrés de Islas

(Active c. 1770-1783)

A painter that is still relatively unknown, but who has been gaining recent attention as a valuable member of the Mexican school. Islas is most well known for his ambitious, large-format paintings found at the college in Mexico City, yet, was also adept at capturing expression and personality in his exquisite portraits. In 1753, Islas--a well-regarded painter in the academic circles--signed the petition to establish an academy of painting in Mexico. Furthermore, he was a witness to the famed Miguel de Cabrera's will.

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Andrés de Islas A painter that is still relatively unknown, but who has been gaining recent attention as a valuable member of the Mexican school. Islas is most well known for his ambitious, large-format paintings found at the college in Mexico City, yet, was also adept at capturing expression and personality in his exquisite portraits. In 1753, Islas--a well-regarded painter in the academic circles--signed the petition to establish an academy of painting in Mexico. Furthermore, he was a witness to the fame

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Threshold

What was I doing in Madrid? The question carried implications: that I appeared neither busy nor local. I heard it most often at the pharmacy. Spaniards, especially the women, could easily detect my Americanness. Embarrassed, I’d sometimes ask, “What gave it away?” and they’d laugh and say, “Well, everything.”

By the time I’d met The Gentleman, I had become reasonably adept at answering this question, having already been asked by bankers and salespeople and policemen alike, and this helped soften my usual reservations around men, leaving room for flirtation.

We were inside the Museo de América, standing in front of a collection of Casta paintings by the Mexican artist Andrés de Islas. Thinking I must not have heard him, The Gentleman asked again, his voice edged with impatience. What was I doing in Madrid?

There were sixteen canvases in total in the exhibition, each depicting a scene between a man and a woman with a child in the middle. Each panel was numbered and inscribed with the racial mixture of the figures at hand and the outcome of that mixing.

Aware of the en

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Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Artist: Islas, Andrés de

Dated: 1772

Cultural Context: Viceroyalty of New Spain / Mexican School

Origin: Mexico (North America)

Medium: Canvas, Oil painting

Technique: Oil on canvas

Dimensions with frame: Height = 115 cm; Width = 93 cm; Without frame: Height = 105 cm; Width = 84 cm

Inventory no.: 00022

Few figures in Mexican culture during the colonial period were more popular or drew greater attention than the woman who, after taking her religious vows, took the name of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. This renowned, highly cultured literary woman and favourite of viceroys devoted most of her life to reading and study from a very early age, soon going on to produce her own works in different genres within the baroque style cultivated by the Hispanic writers of the time. The fact that she was a woman - and a woman in holy orders - always stood in the way of her literary activity, although the quality of her works and the effort she put into them managed to long resist the attacks she received for them, especially from her conf