Jose Maria Velasco – A View of Mexico - Dawn Ades, Daniel Sobrino Ralston, Dexter Dalwood, Pablo Arredondo Vera, María Elena Altamirano Piol

An overdue introduction to one of the Americas’ most eminent nineteenth-century artists, the Mexican painter José María Velasco José María Velasco (1840–1912) is considered the greatest Mexican landscape painter of the nineteenth century. In portraying his native country during decades of enormous societal change, he depicted its magnificent scenery, storied past, and rapid industrialisation, most famously in his monumental representations of the Valley of Mexico, the area surrounding modern... Zobrazit více