Casta, Spanish for “caste,” paintings though also convey ideas beyond wealth. Usually done in sets of 16, the paintings typically show a husband, wife and child.

of Spanish colonial casta paintings currently on display at the Americas Society. "Casta" is Spanish for caste and these "casta paintings" are incredibly frank documents--unparalleled by anything in ...

One of the most wide-ranging collections of Spanish colonial art in the U.S. will open to the public for the first time July 21 in a new museum in Santa Fe, N.M.

Most Spanish Colonial-style homes in the United States today are not made from genuine adobe, which takes a month in the sun to dry and is labor-intensive and expensive to produce.

The Real Academia Española or Spanish Royal Academy, founded in 1713, is best known for compiling the authoritative Spanish language dictionary. It also acts as a gatekeeper for correct usage and ...

“Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America,” a new exhibition opening Aug. 14 at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, explores how they did it.

Now, as for Spanish Revival architecture, that happened a bit later—it was part of the Colonial Revival movement that spread all across the United States in the early 1900s as Americans grew ...