How can a beauty mark cure a headache? What insect is the source of a beloved red color? And how did trade influence clothing patterns in the Americas? The beauty marks, breeches, and brocade featured in "Painted Cloth" are fashion statements that carry many interesting facts behind their origin. Gallery Assistant Daniel Ymbong dives deeper into the details in our latest blog "The Unusual and Ravishing: Beauty Marks, Cochineal, and Prints Galore." Visit the link in our bio to read it in full and see the works in person before the show closes January 8, 2023. #PaintedClothATX 🖼 (1/3) Miguel Cabrera, Doña María de la Luz Padilla y Gómez de Cervantes, (detail) circa 1760, oil on canvas, 43 x 33 in., Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund and Dick S. Ramsay Fund (2/3) Miguel Cabrera, "Don Juan Xavier Joachín Gutiérrez Altamirano Velasco, Count of Santiago de Calimaya," (detail) circa 1752, oil on canvas, 81 5/16 x 53 1/2 in., Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund and Dick S. Ramsay Fund (3/3) "Saint Lawrence," (detail), Cusco, 18th century, oil and gold on canvas, 32 11/16 × 24 13/16 in., Colecció n Barbosa Stern, Lima #BlantonMuseum #ArtInAustin #ATXMuseums #TexasMuseums #ArtOfTheSpanishAmericas #ColonialArt #ArteColonial #ArteVirreinal #BeautyMark #Cochineal