El marqués de Mancera


Source: Margo Glanz, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; saberes y placeres. Toluca, México: Instituto Mexiquense de Cultura, 1996, p. 40.
Image: Anonymous. "Don Antonio Sebastián de Toledo Molina y Salazar, marqués de Mancera," Oil on canvas, 1664.
Humanities issues: (A) Identify the major images and elements in this painting. Analyze them, and evaluate them in their separate parts and as parts of a whole. (B) What is this painting communicating? (C) How do you image Sor Juana related to and/or fit in (or not) in the court of this viceroy and his court?