Juan Rodríguez Juárez (1675 inMexico City – 1728) was an artist in theViceroyalty of New Spain.^[1] He was a member of a Spanish family long noted for their accomplishments in the world of painting. His brother wasNicolás Rodríguez Juárez (1667–1734), who was like himself, an established painter in New Spain. He was the son ofAntonio Rodríguez (1636–91), a notable Spanish painter. His maternal grandfatherJosé Juárez (1617–1661) and maternal great great grandfatherLuis Juárez (1585–1639) were also notable painters inSpanish history and prominent in theBaroque era.^[2]

As with most artists inNew Spain during the late Baroque period, Juan Rodríguez Juárez produced religious art. He also followed the trend of painting portraits of high officials, such as ViceroyLinares and the local nobility. These works followed European models, with symbols of rank and titles either displayed unattached in the outer portions or worked into another element of the paintings such as curtains.^[3] Rodríguez Juárez painted "an extraordinary self-portrait, symptomatic of the changing role of the artist in the colony in the eighteenth century."^[4]

A set of earlycasta paintings (c. 1715) is attributed to him; they are in a private collection atBreamore House, Hampshire, England.^[5] Separate canvases show Mexican racial mixtures in a hierarchical order, with Spanish-Indian mixtures coming first, followed by Spanish-African mixtures, then further permutations of racially mixed couples and offspring. They are as follows: Spaniard andIndia produce aMestizo; Spaniard and Mestiza produce aCastizo; Castizo and Spanish woman produce Spaniard. Spaniard andNegra produce aMulato; Spaniard and Mulata produce aMorisca; Spaniard and Morisca produce anAlbino. From Mulato and Mestiza produce aTorna atrás. FromNegro andIndia,Lobo ("wolf"); FromIndio and Loba produce a crinkly haired (grifo) "Hold-Yourself-In-Midair" (tente en el air); From Lobo andIndia produce aTorna atrás ("throw back"); From Mestizo andIndia produce aCoyote; Mexican Indians; Otomí Indians en route to the fair; Barbarian Indians (Indios Bárbaros).^[6]

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  Christ carrying his Cross -Musée Goya
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  Jesús con la mujer enferma
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  La virgen del Carmen con santa Teresa y san Juan de la Cruz
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  San Juan de Dios
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  Entierro de Cristo, Oil and gold on copper 25.9 × 19.7 cm,Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York City, c. 1702.
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  De mulato y mestiza, produce mulato, es torna atrás, ca. 1715
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  Portrait of ViceroyFernando de Alencastre Noroña y Silva, duque de Linares y marqués de Valdefuentes, ca. 1717
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  Milagros del beato Salvador de Horta, ca. 1720

• Mexican art

• Bailey, Gauvin Alexander.Art of Colonial Latin America. London: Phaidon 2005.
• Katzew, Ilona.Casta Painting. New Haven: Yale University Press 2004.
• Toussaint, Manuel.Colonial Art in Mexico. Translated and edited by Elizabeth Wilder Weisman. Austin: University of Texas Press 1967.

• Pintura Colonial Mexicana: Juan Rodríguez Juárez en arts-history.mx
• En es.encarta.msn
• En Arte Historia

• Casta painters
• Mexican portrait painters
• Mexican religious painters
• 18th-century religious painters
• 17th-century religious painters
• Spanish Baroque painters
• 1675 births
• 1728 deaths
• Artists from Mexico City
• 17th-century Mexican painters
• Mexican male painters
• 18th-century Mexican painters
• 18th-century male artists

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