This evening I have received two emails asking about the significance of Juan de Pareja.
As I think this is a good question, I want to address it here.
This was my short reply:
In some ways Juan de Pareja qua Juan de Pareja is unimportant for our purposes. However, what he symbolizes is important; de Pareja (as a talented individual) epitomizes the possibility of social mobility (especially in a hierarchical Spanish society) when social mobility was rare and decidedly new.
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