Because the colonists wanted to make a good impression, some of New Spain's finest artists were hired to paint casta cycles. However, Europeans did not regard casta paintings as art objects but as ...

Miguel Falomir, director of the Prado, said the painting’s new owner had worked with experts to restore Ecce Homo to its former glory. He said the work arrived in Spain in the 17th century.

When her mother ran into trouble with a restoration project in Spain, Pilar Bosch, her daughter, a microbiologist, found an ...