These animal pictures can be found in the “Tavola di animali” vol. 6/2, fol. 87.
Hierarchy Archive
Painting Hierarchy or the Hierarchy of Genres are the six main types of painting:
1. History Painting
2. Portrait Painting
3. Genre Painting
4. Landscape Painting
5. Animal Painting
6. Still Life Painting
Most of the paintings falls in one or more of these categories and are defined, interpreted accordingly.
This animal picture can be found in Ulisse Aldrovandi “Monstrorum historia cum paralipomenis historiae omnium animalium”, Bologna 1642, 127.
This animal picture can be found in Ulisse Aldrovandi “Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum Historia”, Bologna 1621, 369.
These animal pictures can be found in the “Tavola di animali” vol. 5/1, fol. 20.
Alcibar was a famous painter in Mexico in the viceregal period. He painted murals in many cathedrals, and painted portraits of nuns. In 18th-century Mexico hundreds of portraits were produced on the occasion of taking vow of chastity of young girls going to a convent. This painting representing a 16 years old girl belongs to this series.




















