Félix Parra, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas


A conversation between Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Beth Harris in front of Félix Parra, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, 1875, oil on canvas, 263 x 356.5 cm (Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City)


Additional resources:

Read about this painting on the website of the Museo Nacional del Arte in Mexico City (in Spanish)

Read about this painting on Google Arts & Culture

Read more about the Academy of San Carlos on Smarthistory

Ray Hernández-Duran, The Academy of San Carlos and Mexican Art History: Politics, History, and Art in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (New York: Routledge, 2017)

Oscar E. Vázquez, ed., Academies and Schools of Art in Latin America (New York: Routledge, 2020)

 

Cite this page as: Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Beth Harris, "Félix Parra, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas," in Smarthistory, November 23, 2020, accessed October 2, 2023, https://smarthistory.org/felix-parra-fray-bartolome-de-las-casas/.