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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 ...
The Brazilian public holiday of Dia de Finados, Dia dos Mortos or Dia dos Fiéis Defuntos (Portuguese: "Day of the Dead" or "Day of the Faithful Deceased") is celebrated on November 2. Similar to other Day of the Dead celebrations, people go to cemeteries and churches with flowers and candles and offer prayers. The celebration is intended as a ...
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 skull ...
This Kansas City duo brings beauty to Dia de los Muertos. One dresses the part of the Catrina and the other preserves her creations in photos.
For most leagues, the fantasy football playoffs are kicking off this week with Week 14's byepocalypse behind us and a clean slate rest of season.
The Oscar winner talked to PEOPLE ahead of the premiere of his new faith-based anthology series 'Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints' The boy who’d grow up to direct The Last Temptation of ...
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.
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