Jose agustin arrieta biography of michael
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El Costeño / The Young Man from the Coast
On the Coast. Narrated by Robert Osborne, Professional Bass-baritone and Adjunct Professor at Vassar College
José Agustín Arrieta
(Santa Ana Chiautempan, Tlaxcala, Mexico, 1803–Puebla, Mexico, 1874)
Puebla, Mexico, after 1843
Oil on canvas, 89 × 71 cm
New York, The Hispanic Society of America, LA2391
José Agustín Arrieta was born near Tlaxcala in 1803 and trained at the Puebla Academy of Fine Arts. He is Mexico’s best-known costumbrista painter of genre scenes of everyday life. He also made arresting images of individual popular types, and rich still life compositions. His images follow a deep tradition of popular figure representations in Mexican painting going back to the late 17th century and including the popular castas series in the 18th century, which depicted the various racial/ethnic mixtures of colonial Mexico. Having spent his entire career in Puebla, he died there in 1874.
El Costeño depicts a young man of Afri
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Saint Michael Striking Down the Rebellious Angels
Sebastián López de Arteaga
(Seville, 1610–Mexico City, 1652)
Mexico, ca. 1650–52
Oil on copper, 103.5 × 88 cm
Signed, along left edge: “Arteaga f.at”
New York, The Hispanic Society of America, LA2401
Sebastián López de Arteaga was born 15 March 1610, and trained in Seville, where he managed an atelier with as many as three apprentices from 1630 to 1638. In 1638, he moved to Cádiz, and in 1640, he emigrated to Mexico in the fleet of the newly appointed viceroy, Diego López Pacheco, Marquis of Villena. Arteaga is best-known as one of the artists bringing the tenebrist-naturalist school of early Baroque painting, originally under the influence of the Italian master, Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi, 1571–1610), from Seville to the New World, as seen in his Doubting Thomas (ca. 1643, Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte, inv. 3129). His works after 1643 show a progression towards more ambient lighting schemes and include
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