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Guillermo Tovar De Teresa
Guillermo Tovar de Teresa (Mexico City, August 23, 1956 – ''idem'', November 10, 2013) was a Mexican art history, historian and an art collection, art collector (mainly of painting, literature and ancient books, deeply knowledgeable about the work of the great photographers in Mexico), bibliography, bibliographer, philanthropist, cultural promotion, cultural promoter, and scholar. He was a constant defender of the historical and artistic Mexican heritage, mainly from his hometown, of which he was chronicler, an appointment that was originally in charge of the Presidency and to which he resigned to propose the creation of the Council of the Chronicle of the City of Mexico. He was a specialist in the New Spain/Mexican colonial period art, history and literature. He published several books about Mexican art#Colonial era, 1521–1821, Colonial Mexican art and collaborated, among others, for the newspaper ''La Jornada''. He stood out for his early intelligence: he learned to read long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soumaya Museum
The Museo Soumaya is a private museum in Mexico City and a non-profit cultural institution with two museum buildings in Mexico City — Plaza Carso and Plaza Loreto. It has over 66,000 works from 30 centuries of art including sculptures from Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica, 19th- and 20th-century Mexican art and an extensive repertoire of works by European old masters and masters of modern western art such as Auguste Rodin, Salvador Dalí, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Tintoretto. It is called one of the most complete collections of its kind. The museum is named after Soumaya Domit, who died in 1999, and was the wife of the founder of the museum Carlos Slim. The museum received an attendance of 1,095,000 in 2013, making it the most visited art museum in Mexico and the 56th in the world that year. In October 2015, the museum welcomed its five millionth visitor. The museum was designed by Slim's son-in-law, Fernando Romero's practice, fr·ee. Collection The Museo Soumaya has a col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
