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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 ...
Plaza Carso is a large mixed-use development in the Nuevo Polanco area of Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City, [2] backed by billionaire Carlos Slim. The total cost of the complex is quoted between US$800 million [3] and 1.4 billion. [4] The complex claims to be the largest mixed-use development in Latin America. [5]
Still Life (1954) belongs to Tamayo’s most prolific period. It exemplifies the handling of color that is characteristic of his work. The rich tradition of still life painting in Mexico was not only continued, but also developed into a more modern form, culminating in the characteristic watermelon paintings produced by Rufino Tamayo in the ...
Museo Soumaya, Mexico City The Tears of Saint Peter or Penitent Saint Peter is a c.1587-1596 painting by El Greco . It is similar to other works on the same subject by the artist, such as those in the Bowes Museum , the El Greco Museum , the national museum in Stockholm and others.
Dimensions. 1190 cm × 207.4 cm (470 in × 81.7 in) Location. Museo Soumaya, Mexico City. Day and Night (Spanish: Día y noche) is a mural by Rufino Tamayo, painted using Vinylite resin on canvas and mounted on particleboard. As well as Still Life, it was originally created for the perfumes and pharmacy section of the Sanborns store on Lafragua ...
Location. Museo Soumaya, Mexico City. Venus Victorious ( French: Vénus victorieuse) or Venus Victrix is a c.1914 plaster sculpture of Venus by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, based on his image of the goddess in his painting The Judgement of Paris. [ 1] It shows her holding the golden apple she has just won by being judged the most ...
Jorge González Camarena (24 March 1908 – 24 May 1980) was a Mexican painter, muralist and sculptor. He is best known for his mural work, as part of the Mexican muralism movement, although his work is distinct from the main names associated with it (Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros). His major works include the mural on the main administration ...
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