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La Calavera Catrina. La Calavera Catrina ("The Dapper [female] Skull") had its origin as a zinc etching created by the Mexican printmaker and lithographer José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913). The image is usually dated c. 1910 –12. Its first certain publication date is 1913, when it appeared in a satiric broadside (a newspaper-sized sheet of ...
La Catrina – In Mexican folk culture, the Catrina, popularized by Jose Guadalupe Posada, is the skeleton of a high society woman and one of the most popular figures of the Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico. Articles this image appears in Day of the Dead, Catrina Creator Tomascastelazo
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Zenaida Estrada sits patiently as she gets her face painted as a Catrina by Daniella Briones at Briones’ home before attending the Dia de los Muertos festival at the Mattie Rhodes Center on ...
Posada's La Calavera Catrina.. Posada was born in Aguascalientes on 2 February 1852. [1] [2] His father was Germán Posada Serna and his mother was Petra Aguilar Portillo.. Posada was one of eight children and received his early education from his older brother Cirilo, a country school t
A calaca of La Calavera Catrina. A calaca (Spanish pronunciation:, a colloquial Mexican Spanish name for skeleton) is a figure of a skull or skeleton (usually human) commonly used for decoration during the Mexican Day of the Dead festival, although they are made all year round.
Catrina is the most famous figure associated with the Day of the Dead. [ 4 ] [ 9 ] During Day of the Dead, skulls and skeletons are created from many materials such as wood, sugar paste, nuts, chocolate, etc. [ 9 ] When sugar skulls are purchased or given as gifts, the name of the deceased is often written with icing across the forehead of the ...
by JOHN DORN The Mercedes-Benz Superdome is a landmark in the city of New Orleans. During Hurricane Katrina, then known as the Louisiana Superdome, the arena was used as a "shelter of last resort ...