Juan Correa (1646–1716) was a Mexican distinguished painter of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. His years of greatest activity were from 1671 to 1716. He was an

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, the son of a Mulatto or dark-skinned physician from Cádiz,

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, and a free black woman, Pascuala de Santoyo. Correa "became one of the most prominent artists in New Spain during his lifetime, along with

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." Manuel Toussaint considers Correa and Villalpando the main exponents of the Baroque style of painting in Mexico. Correa was a very productive religious painter, with two major paintings in sacristy of the Cathedral of Mexico City, one of the Immaculate Conception and the other An Allegory of the Church. He also painted major works for the Jesuit church in Tepozotlan, Mexico (now the Museum of the Viceroyalty). According to Toussaint, Correa is "important in achieving a new quality, in the creative impulse he expresses, and which one cannot doubt embodies the eagerness of New Spain for an art of its own, breaking away from its Spanish lineage. Here New Spain attains its own personality, unique and unmistakable."Toussaint, ''Colonial Art in Mexico'', p. 238. Correa was José de Ibarra's teacher.

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'' Image:Las Cuatro Partes del Mundo - Juan Correa.jpg, ''The Four Parts of the World (Las Cuatro Partes del Mundo)''; Late 17th century; Medium: Oil painting on panel. Image:Las Artes Liberales - Juan Correa.jpg, ''The Liberal Arts (Las Artes Liberales). 6 sheets

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, oil on canvas, 242 x 324, Franz Mayer Museum. Image:Los Cuatro Elementos - Juan Correa.jpg, ''The Four Elements (Los Cuatro Elementos)''. 6 sheets

, oil on canvas, 242 x 324, Franz Mayer Museum.

References

*Bailey, Gauvin Alexander. ‘’Art of Colonial Latin America’’. London: Phaidon Press 2005. *Donahue Wallace, Kelly. "A Virgin of Sorrows Attributed to Juan Correa." Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas. Vol. 23. No. 79. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, 2001. *Hyman, Aaron M. "Inventing Painting: Cristóbal de Villalpando, Juan Correa, and New Spain's Transatlantic Canon." The Art Bulletin 99.2 (2017): 102-135. *Toussaint, Manuel. ‘’Colonial Art in Mexico’’. Translated and edited by Elizabeth Wilder Weisman. Austin: University of Texas Press 1967. {{DEFAULTSORT:Correa, Juan Afro-Mexican Colonial Mexico 17th-century Mexican painters Mexican male painters 18th-century Mexican painters 18th-century male artists People of New Spain Mexican painters Religious painters 1646 births 1716 deaths

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