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Founded in 1781 as the School of Engraving, it was the first major art school and the first art museum in the Americas. The school was moved to the Academia Street location about 10 years after its founding and is located at 22 Academia Street, just northeast of the Zócalo of Mexico City.
- An Official Art Academy For New Spain
- Art Education in A Colonial Context
- Neoclassical Style, Indigenous Themes
- A Unique Blend
Spain established the Academy of San Fernando in 1752 in Madrid—an official art school that, like art other academies across Europe, was designed to train artists in drawing, painting, and sculpture. This became the model for the earliest art academy in the Americas—the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City, founded in 1785 under the leadership of S...
Andrés López’s Portrait of Don Matías de Galvez y Gallardo as Vice Protector of the Academy of San Carlos provides a view of the school and its students, as much as of its director, the Viceroy of New Spain (a viceroy rules a colony on behalf of a king), whose portrait it shows. While the Viceroy commands the viewer’s attention in the foreground, o...
In portraiture, such as in Gil de Castro’s Portrait of Bolívar in Bogotá, as well as in history painting, Neoclassicism was considered the academic style par excellence. As in Europe, Neoclassicism allowed Latin American artists to address nationalist values that were rooted in the present yet informed by the classical past. Mexican painters such a...
Though artists from New Spain were educated in the latest European trends and techniques at the newly-established Academy of San Carlos, their works nevertheless exemplify a range of solutions to the challenge of representing the complex history and context of New Spain. Interestingly, they achieved this through a complex synthesis of both local an...
At many critical moments in Mexico’s sometimes stormy history, its national school of art, the Academy of San Carlos, was a decisive factor in defending national sovereignty and promoting progress.
San Carlos is a beach town about 20 minutes from Guaymas, Sonora, known historically for fishing and standing up to the French. The story told locally is that when the French moved north into Sonora, intending to take the state for its goldfields, the men and women of Guaymas dressed in military uniforms and stood on the hills surrounding ...
May 30, 2018 · San Carlos is one of those destinations that, once you get there, you wish you’d known about sooner. After all, this coastal town in Sonora, overlooking the Sea of Cortez, pretty much has it all, from wildlife-spotting opportunities to secluded beaches and world-class viewpoints.
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1517 – The first European explorer arrived on the Yucatán peninsula. Francisco Fernández de Córdoba clashed with Mexican inhabitants, and he returned to Cuba with reports about his findings. 1519 – Hernán Cortés left Cuba and arrived on the Yucatán peninsula, intending to take over the region.
What You Didn’t Know About Visiting San Carlos Mexico. While a lot of people are familiar with Sonora Mexico, some parts of this scenic state are still under-appreciated by tourists. And that’s certainly the case with the city of San Carlos.
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