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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Museo Mural Diego Rivera (Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico)en_US
dc.coverage.temporal1947-1948 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorRivera, Diegoen_US
dc.date1947-1948en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-27T16:01:21Z
dc.date.available2013-02-27T16:01:21Z
dc.date.issued1947-1948en_US
dc.identifier197244en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1603en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/104752
dc.descriptionFrontal view showing the left central scene with hot air balloon at right; Originally in the Hotel del Prado on Alameda Park, moved to the Museo Mural Diego Rivera. The hotel was demolished after the 1985 earthquake, but the precious mural was saved and transferred to its new location in 1986. The huge picture, 15m (49 ft.) long and 4m (13 ft.) high, chronicles the history of the park from the time of Cortez onward. Portrayed in the mural are numerous historical figures. More or less from left to right, but not in chronological order, they include: Cortez; a heretic suffering under the Spanish Inquisition; Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a brilliant, progressive woman who became a nun to continue her scholarly pursuits; Benito Juárez, seen putting forth the laws of Mexico's great Reforma; the conservative Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna, handing the keys to Mexico to the invading American Gen. Winfield Scott; Emperor Maximilian and Empress Carlota; José Martí, the Cuban revolutionary; Death, with the plumed serpent (Quetzalcoatl) entwined about his neck; Gen. Porfirio Díaz, great with age and medals, asleep; a police officer keeping La Alameda free of "riffraff" by ordering a poor family out of the elitists' park; and Francisco Madero, the martyred democratic president who caused the downfall of Díaz, and whose betrayal and alleged murder by Gen. Victoriano Huerta (pictured on the right) resulted in years of civil turmoil. Source: Frommer's [travel guide]; http://www.frommers.com (accessed 7/5/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediumpigment on plasteren_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectdomestic lifeen_US
dc.subjectgenreen_US
dc.subjecthistoricalen_US
dc.subjectrulers and leadersen_US
dc.subjectMexico Historyen_US
dc.subjectparks (recreation areas)en_US
dc.subjectpublic arten_US
dc.subjectMexican Muralisten_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.titleDream of Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Parken_US
dc.title.alternativeSueno de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Centralen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode6A1-RD-DSA-A4en_US
vra.culturalContextMexicanen_US
vra.techniquefresco painting (technique)en_US
vra.worktypefresco (painting)en_US
dc.contributor.displayDiego Rivera (Mexican painter, 1886-1957)en_US


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