Museo Nacional de San Carlos
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Location | Colonia Tabacalera, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City |
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Public transit access | Museo San Carlos bus station |
Website | www |
The Museo Nacional de San Carlos (English: National Museum of San Carlos) is a Mexican national art museum devoted to European art, located in the Cuauhtémoc borough in Mexico City. The museum is housed in the Palace of the Count of Buenavista, a neoclassical building at Puente de Alvarado No. 50, Colonia Tabacalera, Mexico City. It contains works by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Parmigianino, Frans Hals, Anthony van Dyck, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Auguste Rodin and other well-known European painters and sculptors.
The institution
[edit]The museum was founded in 1968 by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura to house the collection of European art.
Directors
[edit]- 1997 - 2004: Roxana Velásquez Martínez del Campo[1]
- ... - 2011: Maria Fernanda Matos Moctezuma[2]
- 2011 - ...: Carmen Gaitán[3]
The collection
[edit]Paintings
[edit]- &François Boucher, Portrait of a child with a hat, 18th century
- Max Koner, Portrait of Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, 1904
- Pedro Campaña, The Seven Virtues, ca. 1550
- Alonzo Cano, John the Evangelist gives the communion to the Virgin, 17th century
- Juan Carreño de Miranda, Queen Mariana of Austria, 1673
- Attributed to Piero di Cosimo, Portrait of a boy, ca. 1500
- Attributed to Piero di Cosimo, The Virgin, child Jesus and John the Baptist, ca. 1500
- Lucas Cranach the Elder, Adam and Eve, 1530
- Henri Decaisne, Odalisque, first half of the 19th century
- Gaudenzio Ferrari, Hieronymus, first half of the 16th century
- Frans Hals, Unknown man, 1634
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The child Saint John the Baptist, 19th century
- Federico de Madrazo, Woman in White, 1859
- Circle of Jan Matsys, Madonna and Child, 16th century
- Master of the Tiburtine Sibyl, The resurrection of Lazarus, ca. 1480
- Abraham Mignon, Still life, second half of the 17th century
- Parmigianino, Holy Family, first half of the 16th century
- Pietro Perugino, Virgin and Child crowned by two angels, first quarter of the 16th century
- Pontormo, Virgin and Child, 16th century
- Joaquim Sorolla, Mending nets, 1901
- Bernardo Strozzi, Francis of Assisi, 17th century
- Anthony van Dyck, Head of a Bearded Man, first half of the 17th century
- Joris van Son, Still life with vegetables and fruit, 1661
- Francisco Zurbarán, Supper at Emmaus, 17th century
- Anonymous painter, Portrait of the Fagoaga Arozqueta family -from Mexico City-, ca. 1735[4]
Sculptures
[edit]- James Pradier, Bacchante
- Auguste Rodin, The call to arms
- Miguel E. Schulz, Diana
- Manuel Vilar, Charles Borromeo
Other
[edit]- Flemish tapestry Battle, from the 17th century
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Internationally Renowned Director to Lead The San Diego Museum of Art" (in Spanish). San Diego Museum of Art. 28 May 2010. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
- ^ "Anuncia el INBA cambios en la dirección de museos y coordinaciones" (in Spanish). La Cronica de Hoy. 15 December 2010. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
- ^ "Carmen Gaitán será la nueva directora del Museo Nacional de San Carlos". Milenio.com. 14 January 2011. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
- ^ "Retrato de la familia Fagoaga-Arozqueta". electronic magazine Imágenes of the Institute of Aesthetic Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.