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En la obra “El retrato en México: 1781-1867. Héroes, emperadores y ciudadanos para una nueva nación"” la autora analiza la producción plástica del género del retrato durante ese periodo. Se estudian en primer lugar los retratos producidos por los profesores y alumnos de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de la ciudad de México desde su fundación, en 1784 hasta el periodo de 1867. Se hace especial hincapié en los retratos realizados por los profesores españoles que allí impartieron sus enseñanzas como Rafael Jimeno y Planes y Pelegrín Clavé. En segundo lugar se...

Los de abjo treats what is perhaps the saddest period in modern Mexican history, a period of aimless slaughter when a whole nation was plunged into strife by leaders who had few clear ideas of what they were striving for. The reader shares the same disillusionment that the author himself must have felt as he met leader after leader whose revolutionary zeal was merely a disguise for base passions and desires.

Exhibition of the mural and the art surrounding Diego Rivera's famous mural " Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central". Completed in 1947, the mural depicts scenes and people from the Spanish Conquest to the middle of the 20th century. The exhibition is based on the documentary collection of the great collector Ricardo Pérez Escamilla. The exhibition unites in order the documents and original publications that have iconographic roots in the mural. Other works of the epoch have been included to show different imagery or graphics of the images present in the mural as a complement...

A collection of colonial documents and correspondence, 1543-1807, relating to the administration of the region of Tlalnepantlan, Estado de Mexico.