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Museo Soumaya


is in the Plaza Loreto of San Ángel in the southern part of Mexico City. The new building in Plaza Carso in the Nuevo Polanco district was designed by the Mexican architect Fernando Romero and opened in 2011. The building is named after Lebanese-Mexican Soumaya Domit Gemayel who is the late wife of Lebanese-Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helo. Her relatives are also the important political family Gemayel in Lebanon and is a cousin of the former President's Bashir and Amine Gemayel. Built near the Magdalena river the museum's first building
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Siqueiros, Kahlo, Gerzso, Carrington, Tamayo, among others, and also regularly hosts temporary exhibits of international modern art. In southern Mexico City, the Museo Carrillo Gil (Carrillo Gil Museum) showcases avant-garde artists, as does the University Museum/Contemporary Art (Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo – or MUAC), designed by famed Mexican architect Teodoro González de León, inaugurated in late 2008. The Museo Soumaya, named after the wife of Mexican magnate Carlos Slim, has the largest private collection of original Rodin sculptures
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museum is named after Soumaya Domit, who died in 1999, and was the wife of the founder of the museum Carlos Slim. The museum received an attendance of 1,095,000 in 2013, making it the most visited art museum in Mexico and the 56th in the world that year. In October 2015, the museum welcomed its five millionth visitor. The museum was designed by Fernando Romero's practice, fr·ee. The Museo Soumaya has a collection of over 66,000 pieces of art. The majority of the art consists of European works from
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the past. The museum collection includes many of the most well known European artists from the 15th to 20th centuries, in particular a large collection of sculptures by Rodin and Salvador Dali. Carlos Slim bought a large number of sculptures by Rodin in the 1980s and the value of many of these pieces has soared since. With a collection of over 100 Rodin works, some critics have claimed that Slim "...is more of a bargain hunter than an aesthete". The original building of the Museo Soumaya, opened in 1994,
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Anatol. Part of the city's iconic park, Chapultepec, falls within Polanco's borders. Parque Lincoln is a neighborhood park as are the smaller Parque América and Plaza Uruguay. Polanco is walking distance from some of the city's most important museums in Chapultepec Park, such as the National Museum of Anthropology, the Soumaya Museum, the Modern Art Museum and Chapultepec Castle. Bordering Polanco on the north, in Nuevo Polanco are the Museo Soumaya and Museo Jumex. In addition to the above-mentioned shopping and dining, Polanco
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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 art such as Auguste Rodin, Salvador Dalí, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Tintoretto. It is called one of the most complete collections of its kind. The
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28 vertical curved steel columns and seven beams encircling the structure built by a Slim-owned company that manufactures offshore oil rigs. In addition, the roof is kept stable through its suspension from a cantilever. The floors are made of high quality marble that was imported from Greece. The new location of the Museo Soumaya was officially inaugurated on February 28, 2011 that culminated in a ceremonial ribbon cutting. Notable guests that participated in the ribbon cutting included Felipe Calderón, Gabriel García Márquez, Evelyn Robert de Rothschild, and Larry King
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it hosted the exhibition European Landscapes, showing 50 works by Pierre-Antoine Demachy, Klaes Molenaer and Joost Carhelisz. 24 of these were new acquisitions. In 2011 the main collection moved to a new building, constructed in the north of the city in Plaza Carso. The building is a six-story building covered by 16,000 hexagonal aluminum tiles. The aluminium used in the project was supplied by a company that is also owned by Carlos Slim. The new building was designed by the Mexican architect Fernando Romero, who is married
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L'Amour à la folie


L'Amour à la folie ("Love to madness") is an 1869 sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, part of the sculptural group "La Danse" for the Paris Opera Garnier, and commissioned architect Charles Garnier. The Musee d'Orsay in Paris holds a terracotta edition (RF 2928), the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City holds both a terracotta and a bronze (Inv.° 274) and the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon holds an edition in marble (Inv.° 563). Henry James wrote of the sculpture
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), which displays his art collection for no admission fee. Slim founded three nonprofit foundations concentrating on Mexico City: one for the arts, education, and health care; one for sports; and one for downtown restoration. Established in 1986 "Fundación Carlos Slim Helú" sponsors the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City, named after Slim's late wife, Soumaya Domit, opened 2011. It holds 66,000 pieces, including religious relics, contains the world's second-largest collection of Rodin sculptures, including "The Kiss",
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from two centuries, and it is dedicated to the research in the history of design and communications, as well as the promotion of collecting in general. The museum offers workshops, seminars, conferences and other activities intended to promote design and communication. The Museo del Objeto del Objeto is part of a long tradition in Mexico City of collectors who donate their collections in order to found or expand museums. Art collectors and other kinds of collectors have been behind museums such as Soumaya, Franz Mayer, Museo del Juguete and others.
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Jorge González Camarena


. At the end of the 1970s, the Mexican government commissioned him to create a painting for the Bulgarian people of Saint George. He was invited to Bulgaria to unveil the painting. In appreciation, the Bulgarian government sponsored a European tour of Gonzalez Camarena's work which ended up in the Museo de Arte Moderno in New York. Most of his easel work is in the hands of private collectors in both Mexico and abroad. These include the Museo Soumaya, the collection of the Carso Foundation, the collection of José López Portillo
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to the public in April 2007, and has since showcased work from throughout the United States and all of Latin America. Past Exhibitions include: "Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement" (March 2009), "American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music" (June 2009), "Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City" (July 2008), "Myth, Mortals, and Immortality: Works from Museo Soumaya de México" (June 2008) and "Azucar! The Life
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Danaid (Rodin)


Danaid is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin, based on the account in the "Metamorphoses" of Hypermnestra, eldest of the Danaïdes. It was originally conceived as part of his "The Gates of Hell" but was not included in the final version of that work. It is based on "Andromeda", also from "Gates". Originally produced in 1890 in marble, bronze casts of "Danaid" began to be produced in 1891 and are in collections in France as well as the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City.
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Adonis Awakens


Adonis Awakens (in French "Le réveil d’Adonis", literally "The Awakening of Adonis") is an 1889 sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin. Based on the account of Adonis in Book 10 of Ovid's "Metamorphoses", it is signed “A RODIN” on the edge of the base. It is now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City. Venus found Adonis as a baby and took him to the underworld to be fostered by Persephone and to protect him from the wrath of Apollo and Artemis.
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to a daughter of Carlos Slim, engineered with Ove Arup and Frank Gehry, and cost $70 million to build. The museum has a narrow entrance that opens into a large white gallery. The top floor of the building is opened so that it is illuminated by sunlight during the daytime. In addition to the art galleries, the new building contains a library, restaurant, and a 350-seat auditorium. Each of the six floors of the museum are distinctly shaped. The weight of the building is held by an exoskeleton of
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Le vieillard (Pourtau)


Le vieillard ("The old man") is an 1894 painting by Léon Pourtau in the collection of the Museo Soumaya, Mexico City. This work represents an old man in a deserted French street, during a curfew of Prussian occupation. The man walks with crutches, probably with a physical wound. The scene is illuminated by the explosion of a bomb that produces an intense yellow colour that breaks the darkness of the night. This work was produced in the context of the defeat of the French Republic to the German Empire
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Young Mother


Young Mother is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin with a brown and green patina, conceived in 1885 and cast by the Rudier Foundry. A first edition cast is now in the Museo Soumaya. Other versions of the work survive in marble in the National Gallery of Scotland and in plaster in the Academy of the Legion of Honour in San Francisco. It shows a young woman sitting on a rock and resting a child on her knee. It was shown on the lower half of "The Gates of Hell" and may have
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Ovid's Metamorphoses (sculpture)


Ovid's Metamorphoses or The Satyrs is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin, created as part of "The Gates of Hell". It draws on the tale of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus in Book IV, lines 285-388 of Ovid's "Metamorphoses". One edition of the bronze cast of it is now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City. Another edition of this bronze cast is on display at the Yamasaki Majak Museum of Art in Nagoya Japan. His models were two ballerinas at the Paris Opera, recommended to him in
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as Casa Frissac. Prior to the opening of this museum, the only other museum (as opposed to a cultural center focused on classes) was the Museo Soumaya, which is private. Much of the museum's collection of historic items was donated by over one hundred individual residents and include documents, photographs, artworks and more. These donations cover the eight rural “pueblos” in the Ajusco area, traditional barrios and the major apartment complexes in Coapa and San Lorenzo Huipulco as well as Tlalpan center. An organization called the
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Aviation (painting)


Aviation () is a painting by Rufino Tamayo, dating 1934, its technique is gouache on paper. This painting is part of the collection of Latin American Artists of Museo Soumaya. The composition is about the first airplane that managed to fly. In the foreground it is possible to see three male figures. The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur appear on the right side, they were two American inventors. On the left side there is Brazilian Alberto Santos-Dumont. It is still debated who between these three characters was
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Day and Night (painting)


Day and Night () is a mural by Rufino Tamayo, executed in Vinylite on canvas and mounted on particleboard. As well as "Still Life", it was originally produced for the perfumes and pharmacy section of the Sanborns store on Lafragua Street in Mexico City. Since 2011 it has been conserved in the lobby of the Museo Soumaya. Tamayo executed the work in 1954, employing the same technique used for the other murals in the Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts), "The Birth of Our Nationality
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of the Sun and the Moon,” to which Pellicer replied that it seemed the poet was Tamayo. On the occasion of the celebrations of seventy years of artistic production by Tamayo, the mural was taken from its original setting and exhibited in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City before travelling to Madrid, Moscow, and Oslo. It was then removed from the Sanborns on Lafragua, on the recommendation of art critic Raquel Tibol. It was restored to its original brilliance and moved to the Museo Soumaya at Plaza Loreto in
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The Rosario Chapel


The Rosario Chapel is a painting by Mexican artist Juan Soriano. The work is an oil on canvas and its dimensions are 125.6 x 75.4 cm The painting is part of the collection of Museo Soumaya in Mexico City and recently was part of the retrospective exhibition, "Juan Soriano 1920-2006," organized by the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico. The painting highlights the topics of color and abstractionism, which were important characteristics of this particular period in Soriano's work. It is also a characteristic that he shared with the
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Glaucus (sculpture)


Glaucus is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, first conceived in 1886 as a representation of the mythological figure Glaucus, son of Poseidon. Originally made in plaster, bronze casts of it are now in the Brooklyn Museum and the Museo Soumaya. It was one of many studies arising from Rodin's reading of Ovid's "Metamorphoses", here drawing on Book XII, 1-74. It adds a female figure to the male figure from "Seated Old Man" in order to represent the myth of Glaucus and
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admirer of Rodin's work. In addition to Rodin, some notable European artists whose work is displayed include Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, the circle of Leonardo da Vinci, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Joan Miró, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, El Greco, Camille Claudel, and Tintoretto. The most valuable work of art in the collection is believed to be a version of "Madonna of the Yarnwinder" by a member of the circle of Leonardo da Vinci. Another version of
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is on what was part of the encomienda of the conquistador Hernán Cortés in the 15th century. His son Martín Cortés installed a wheat watermill on the site which in the 19th century was converted to a paper mill. In 1905 a fire broke out in the facility and as a result, on 13 October 1905, its then owners sold to Alberto Lenz. In 1906 Lenz converted the mill to a factory named "Fábrica de Papel de Loreto y Peña Pobre" after which the current plaza is named. In the 1980s,
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another fire destroyed most of the facilities and operations were transferred to the state of Tlaxcala. This led to the Grupo Carso undertaking an urban conversion of the ruins to turn it into what is now the site of the museum - officially founded in 1994. In 1996 the museum received heritage recognition from ICOMOS. The museum building featured four distinct rooms each of which had a specific theme: European & Mexican landscape; The age of Rodin; Mexican calendars; temporary exhibitions. In 2014, on the occasion of its 19th anniversary,
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. The new building opened to the public on March 28, 2011. Admission to the museum is now free of charge and the operating costs are covered by Slim's fortune, which was the world's largest at the time the new location opened. The museum is located in a large mixed-use development, Plaza Carso in Nuevo Polanco. This project was also built by Carlos Slim and features many of his companies, as well as a luxury hotel and several apartment buildings. The entire development cost almost $800 million
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Polanco, Mexico City


Polanco is an affluent neighborhood in the Miguel Hidalgo borough of Mexico City. Polanco is an upscale community, famed for its luxury shopping on "Avenida Presidente Masaryk", one of the most expensive streets in the Americas, as well as for the numerous prominent cultural institutions located within the neighborhood, such as the Museo Soumaya and the Colección Jumex. Polanco is often called the ""Beverly Hills of Mexico"", being one of the country's densest concentrations of luxury shopping, Michelin star restaurants, high-net-
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Monument to Balzac


in New York City, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, in front of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands, in Caracas, Venezuela in the open spaces around the former Ateneo de Caracas, now UNEARTES and "Balzac in the Robe of a Dominican Monk" in Museo Soumaya in Mexico City. Today the artwork is sometimes considered the first truly modern sculpture. The Société des Gens de Lettres (Paris, France) considered four different artists for the sculptural work before it was given
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El abrazo (Jorge González Camarena)


El abrazo (in English "The Embrace") is a work by Mexican artist Jorge González Camarena, painted in 1980. The author gave the painting to his son Jorge González Camarena Barre de Saint-Leu. In October 2013 the work was sold to Carlos Slim Foundation. It is part of the permanent collection of Museo Soumaya in Mexico City. The painting is an easel version of the mural "La fusión de dos culturas" (In English, "The Fusion of Two Cultures"), previously entitled by the
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Mary Magdalene as Melancholy


Mary Magdalene as Melancholy is a 1622–1625 painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, showing Mary Magdalene as a personification of Melancholia. It is now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City. It is an autograph copy of Penitent Magdalene by the artist now in the Treasury of Seville Cathedral, although X-ray examination has shown that the fabric on the saint's shoulder is wider in the Seville version and was probably added later to fit with the canons of the Catholic Church. This has also demonstrated that the two faces are different - the Mexico
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Our Lady of Sorrows (Cristóbal de Villalpando)


this Marian devotion in Acatzingo, Puebla, and in Oaxaca. Since all of the religious orders in New Spain fostered this devotion, there was a considerable production of paintings of the Mater Dolorosa. This work by Villalpando was formerly in the collection of Dr. José Luis Pérez de Salazar, before it passed into the collection of the Museo Soumaya at an unknown date. It was restored in 1995, under the supervision of Javier Padilla Leiner. Three other representations of the Mater Dolorosa by Villalpando are known to exist: one in the
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Venus Victorious


Venus Victorious (French - "Venus victorieuse"; French - "Venus victoriosa") 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". It shows her holding the golden apple she has just won by being judged the most beautiful of three goddesses by Paris. It is now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City. Renoir had advanced arthritis by the time he produced the work and so was assisted by
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The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost


The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost (known by the artist as "Le baiser du fantôme et la demoiselle" or "Le Rêve" ) is an 1880 sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin. It was first exhibited at his fourteenth exhibition, hosted by the National Society Salon. One of the marble versions of the work is now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City. It shows a winged man above a young woman, who tries not to return his kiss. The work shows Rodin's admiration for Michelangelo's treatment
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The Succubus (sculpture)


The Succubus is a bronze sculpture with a green and dark brown patina. It was originally conceived in 1889 by the French artist Auguste Rodin as part of a set of works showing sirens and Nereids. It later formed part of his state-commissioned monument to Victor Hugo. It is now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City. It shows a succubus, a demon taking on female form to deceive and seduce human men. The figure kneels in a feline posture, evoking medieval associations between cats and the forces of darkness.
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Jean de Fiennes


Jean de Fiennes is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, first produced between 1885 and 1886. A bronze cast of it is now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City. It is an individual nude modello for his group "The Burghers of Calais", showing Jean de Fiennes, captain of Calais and the youngest of the burghers. However, de Fiennes' name was only assigned to one of the burghers long after the historical event in 1346. Rodin made individual modellos of the figures to study the proportions of
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The Death of Adonis (Rodin)


The Death of Adonis is a white marble sculpture. It was created by Auguste Rodin and signed “A  RODIN” on the base. It shows Aphrodite mourning over the body of Adonis. The main version is in the Musée Rodin and another is in the Museo Soumaya. As Rodin's fame grew during the 1880s, the demand for his work increased, so many of his works, which were originally created in a smaller format, began to come out of his studio, which had already grown considerably. Some of these
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He received the Premio Nacional de Artes in 1970 and in 1972 was accepted as a member of the Academia de Artes. He was also a member of the Asociación Mexicana de Artes Plásticas and the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. For the 2008 100th anniversary of his birth, institutions such as the Museo Soumaya, the Instituto Politécnical Nacional, the Mexican Senate and the Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social held exhibitions and homage to his work and life. González Camarena was a major figure in the Mexican muralism movement. His work was distinguished
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the 15th to the 20th centuries. It also holds Mexican art, religious relics, and historical documents and coins. The museum contains the world's largest collection of pre-Hispanic and colonial era coins. The museum holds the largest collection of casts of sculptures by Auguste Rodin outside France, and the world's largest private collection of his art. Slim owns a total of 380 casts and works of art by Rodin. His late wife, whom he credits with teaching him much of what he knows about art, was an
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the same painting has been valued at over £30 Million. Several Mexican artists are also featured, including Diego Rivera and Rufino Tamayo. The director of the museum has claimed that the total worth of the art it holds is over $700 million. The museum's director, Alfonso Miranda, has described its approach as "not a copy of the Occident; what we have is a whole new version of things." The museum notably includes some types of European art that have not been permanently displayed in Latin America in
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to build. Mexican president Felipe Calderón praised the museum as a place where "Mexicans can learn about the great masters of all time". Slim himself described the museum as his attempt to increase the "humanistic capital" of Mexico City. He has noted that since many Mexicans cannot afford to travel to Europe to view art collections there, it was important to house a prestigious collection of European art in Mexico itself. Some commentators, including Larry King, have predicted that the museum will cause an increase in the number
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. For his paintings, he did preliminary research and worked from photographs that he took himself in Mexican villages: he portrayed ideal models of men and women with a romantic beauty very much in the popular taste. The introduction to Museo Soumaya's Mexican Calendars catalogue defines the colorful aesthetics of Mexican calendar art as a "singular combination of creativity and commercial efficacy". And furthermore states that: "Both affective and effective, the final product was multiplied in works that have persisted in the collective imagination of several generations of Mexicans,
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Solid Happiness


Solid Happiness is an oil on canvas painted in Italy by the Chilean artist Roberto Matta in 1997. Germana Ferrari Matta, the painter's last companion and the cataloguer of his oeuvre, certified the work on 28 April 2001. The painting went from the "Diana Lowenstein gallery" in Buenos Aires to the "Galería Almirante" in Madrid and from there to Sotheby's auction house in New York, before being acquired by Fundación Carlos Slim for the Latin American Vanguard and Art collection of Museo Soumaya. Barbara Eschenburg has written:
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Two Bathers (painting by Rufino Tamayo)


Two Bathers was realized with the technique of tempera on paper and executed by Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo in 1934. As of October 2016 It's on permanent display in Museo Soumaya. His oeuvre is a reference to his muse Olga Tamayo. Both figures wear a bun that used to wear frequently his wife. The Indian heritage is visible in the skin color. The master created a new narrative of Mexico and the femininity. The red tree creates a contrasting balance with the weight of the two female figures. In 2016 the piece
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Inmaculada Concepción (Murillo, 1670)


Inmaculada Concepción is a painting made by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo in the year 1670. It belongs to the collection of Museo Soumaya, . The technique is oil on canvas, and its dimensions are 168 x 112 cm. The painting was registered as an original Murillo in the 1979 catalogue by Diego Angulo Íñiguez, Spanish art historian. It belonged to the French marshal Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta, an officer who participated in Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1807. The painting traveled with him back to Paris and remained there
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Our Lady of Sorrows (Cristóbal de Villalpando)


"La Dolorosa" ("Lady of Sorrows" or "Mater Dolorosa") is a work by Cristóbal de Villalpando probably painted between 1680 and 1689 and belonging to the collection of the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City. In the work of Villalpando’s early formative period, the influence of Baltasar de Echave Rioja and Pedro Ramírez is noticeable, as the painter’s skills were nourished mainly by the artistic circles of the cities of Mexico and Puebla. His baroque style would prolong this pictorial tradition into the 1680s. From Echave he
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Kahlil Gibran (sculptor)


Mexico City's Museo Soumaya, This institute provided the space, security, curatorial staff, scholars, and passion to care for the works and possessions of the poet. On October 21, 2007, the archive was placed in that museum's care. Shortly after, Jean and Kahlil Gibran made another special donation when their vast collection of European and American medals was accepted by the Los Angeles County Museum. A major exhibition of Gibran's work was shown at Boston's St. Botolph Club during September and October 2007. The curators
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Edit-a-thon


been organised by Wikipedians in residence. The longest editathon took place at the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City from June 9 to 12, 2016, where volunteers and museum's staff edited during 72 continuous hours. This editathon was also recognized by Guinness World Records as the longest. The OpenStreetMap community has also hosted a number of edit-a-thons. Art+Feminism has held world-wide edit-a-thons annually since 2014 expand the histories of women, feminism, and arts found on Wikipedia, and to dismantle the biases
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Saint Apollonia (Artemisia Gentileschi)


Saint Apollonia is a painting attributed to the Italian baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi executed between 1642 and 1644. It is part of the collection of the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City, Mexico. The painting depicts Saint Appolonia, a martyr who died in Alexandria during an uprising against Christians in the thirteenth century. The portrait shows the saint from the waist up, against a dark background, looking up, as if skyward. Her left hand extended upward, while her right hand is carrying a pair of tweezers with a tooth, an
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A Mediterranean Port


A Mediterranean Port or A Sea Port by Moonlight refers to two 1771 paintings of the same subject by the French painter Claude Joseph Vernet. They are now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City and the Louvre in Paris. The two paintings form part of a series of fifteen works by Vernet showing port scenes. It was commissioned by Madame du Barry, who was trying to replace Madame de Pompadour as the greatest art patron among Louis XIV's lovers. Vernet was one of a circle of artists which gathered around du Barry.
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Head of Camille Claudel


Head of Camille Claudel is a polychrome glass paste sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, conceived in 1884 and executed in 1911. It is now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City. It shows his then studio assistant Camille Claudel in a Phrygian cap. Claudel, a now-renowned sculptor, studied under Rodin's friend Alfred Boucher and then with Rodin. Rodin took over Boucher's classes, took Clauden on as a studio assistant, and they soon became associates and lovers. He produced the head during the early stages
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Eustache de Saint Pierre (sculpture)


Eustache de Saint Pierre is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin, now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City. It was conceived between 1885 and 1886 as part of his "The Burghers of Calais" group. The other figures in the group (Jean de Fiennes, Pierre de Wiessant, Jacques de Wiessant, Jean d´Aire and Andrieu d'Andres) were also cast as individual figures. In Rodin's first maquette for the project, the figure of Eustache de Saint Pierre (the oldest of the burghers) was in a dominant position within
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Force India VJM08


The Force India VJM08 is a Formula One racing car which Force India used to compete in the 2015 Formula One season. It was driven by Sergio Pérez and Le Mans winner Nico Hülkenberg. The car's livery was first presented at an event in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City on 21 January 2015, albeit using a modified chassis from a previous car instead of the VJM08 itself. The team did not participate at all in Jerez and elected to use their 2014 car at the first test in Barcelona. The VJM08 finally made
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Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl


the Museo Soumaya de México" exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution. Iztaccíhuatl's father sent Popocatépetl to war in Oaxaca, promising him his daughter as his wife if he returned. Iztaccíhuatl's father presumed he would not return and so arranged several suitors for his beloved daughter. When Iztaccíhuatl heard of this she killed herself with a dagger, because she knew that Popocatépetl would never survive in battle and did not want to marry anyone else. When Popocatépetl returned, and discovered the death of his lover, he took her to the top
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Portrait of Elizabeth Kerr


Portrait of Elizabeth Kerr is a c. 1769 oil on canvas portrait painting by the English artist Joshua Reynolds. It is now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City. It shows Elizabeth Kerr (née Fortescue), daughter of Chichester Fortescue (1718–1757), High Sheriff of County Down in what is now Northern Ireland. Reynolds also painted her at least twice between her marriage in 1762 and her husband's succession to the marquisate in 1775 – these half-lengths are on show at Blickling Hall and Fyvie Castle. John Spilsbury engraved
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Bust of Victor Hugo


The Bust of Victor Hugo is an 1883 patinated plaster sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin of the Romantic writer Victor Hugo. It is now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City. In 1883 the journalist Edmond Bazire advised Rodin to cement his reputation by producing a portrait of a notable personality. Rodin thus approached Hugo - he agreed to sittings but refused to sit for longer than 30 minutes. However, he did invite Rodin to stand in the porch of Hugo's house on Avenue d'Eylau in Paris to make additional drawings from
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Carlos Slim


, or roughly 5%, to his Carlos Slim foundation as of 2011. Though Slim has not gone as far as Gates and Buffett in pledging more than half of his fortune, Slim has expressed firm support for philanthropy and has advised budding entrepreneurs that businessmen must do more than givethey "should participate in solving problems". Slim has channeled his philanthropic endeavors into many initiatives such as funding a genomic medicine research project, subsidizing numerous arts and education projects in Mexico City, including the Museo Soumaya (named after his late wife
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Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura


Located in Mexico City, Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura is a space dedicated to exhibiting, researching and rethinking design in its many forms and outlets. Founded by Mexican architect Fernando Romero and his wife Soumaya Slim in 2012, Archivo houses two collections: a design collection of over 1,500 objects, both international and of Mexican origin, and the personal library of the well-known Mexican modernist architect, Enrique del Moral. Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura is housed in a 1952 modernist dwelling built by artist and architect Arturo Chávez Paz, located in
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Robert Seppings


Sir Robert Seppings, FRS (11 December 176725 April 1840) was an English naval architect. Seppings was born to Robert and Lydia Seppings at Fakenham, Norfolk, on 11 December 1767 and baptised three days later. In 1782 he was apprenticed in HMNB Devonport, Plymouth. In 1800, when he had risen to be master shipwright assistant in the yard, he invented a device which greatly reduced the time required to repair the lower portions of ships in dry dock when compared with the laborious process of lifting then in vogue.
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Mexico City International Airport


international airport was announced by Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto on September 2, 2014, who said that it would be "emblemático", or a national symbol. The new airport would replace the current Mexico City International Airport, which is at capacity. It would have had one large terminal of and six runways: two of each length and four of each length. The architects were Sir Norman Foster and Fernando Romero, son-in-law of billionaire Carlos Slim and architect of the Soumaya Museum. Construction would have taken
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Mexico City Texcoco Airport


125 million passengers, making it the second largest airport in the world today. The Master Plan was developed by the global engineering and consultancy company Arup Group Limited. The architectural project was designed in collaboration between Pritzker award architect Norman Foster - whose works include Beijing Capital International Airport, Hong Kong International Airport - and renowned Mexican Architect Fernando Romero - whose works include Soumaya Museum. NAICM Texcoco construction was in process since 2016, and was managed by Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México (GACM), a state-owned company
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Sep Ruf


Sep Ruf (full name Franz Joseph Ruf; 9 March 1908, in Munich – 29 July 1982, in Munich) was a German architect and designer, belonging to the Bauhaus group. He was one of the representatives of modern architecture in Germany after World War II. His elegant buildings received high credits in Germany and Europe and his German pavilion of the Expo 58 in Brussels, built together with Egon Eiermann, achieved worldwide recognition. He attended the Interbau 1957 in Berlin-Hansaviertel and was one of the three architects who
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Soumaya Khalifa


Soumaya Khalifa is an American executive of Egyptian origin. She launched the Islamic Speakers Bureau (ISB) of Atlanta in August 2001. The ISB metro Atlanta and its volunteers have presented to thousands in metro Atlanta and surrounding areas about Islam and Muslims. In addition, the ISB created the 100 Influential Georgia Muslims and the 40 Under Forty Georgia Muslims. In 2018, the organization initiated the Institute for Muslim Civic Leadership (IMCL), the first of its kind leadership institute with a focus on the Georgia Muslim Communities. Soumaya Khalifa
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Soumaya Khalifa


of the Concordia Forum, and is a past board member of AIB TV and SIETAR USA and past adjunct faculty at FEI ( FEI is an executive and management development and training center for governmental leaders). Soumaya Khalifa was born in Alexandria, Egypt. She holds an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the University of Houston and a master's degree in human resources from Georgia State University. She and her husband Mohamed have 3 children: Dr. Yousuf Khalifa, Mr. Osama Khalifa and Ms. Yosra Khalifa. Soumaya and Mohamed have been residents
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Museo de Historia de Madrid


The Museum of History of Madrid is a history museum located on Calle de Fuencarral in downtown Madrid, Spain that chronicles the history of the city. It was opened as the Museo Municipal in 1929, and was renamed as the Museo de Historia de Madrid in 2007. The museum's building was formerly the Royal Hospice of San Fernando, built in 1673. The building was designed by Spanish architect Pedro de Ribera. The museum opened in 1929 as the Museo Municipal (municipal museum). It was closed in 1955 the museum
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Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Madrid)


The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (), formerly known as Museo Municipal de Arte Contemporáneo, is a museum in Madrid, Spain, located in the historic barracks of the Conde Duque, a building designed by the architect Pedro de Ribera at the beginning of the 18th century. The building was declared "Bien de Interés Cultural" in 1976. The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo was inaugurated in November 2001 with two basic aims: to create a permanent forum in the context of a center like the Conde Duque, open to an intense
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Museo Pambata


Trustees meeting held in June 1993. Educators, visual artists, architects, museum workers and other professionals met regularly to brainstorm. Concepts were then translated into several theme rooms designed and produced pro bono by architect and stage designer Joselito Tecson. In December 1993, the City Council of Manila, in a memorandum of agreement (MOA) granted the Museo Pambata a 10-year-free-of-lease-use of the Elks Club Building. The funds raised by the board of trustees were used to start its rehabilitation. In March
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Meyer locomotive


in derelict condition) and two in Chile (#3348 at Los Andes station workshop, seen under restoration on 8-Sep-2013 and Serial #4664 Operating #3349 at the Museo Ferroviario de Santiago, Parque Quinta Normal, Santiago de Chile, in cosmetically restored condition). There are also six very derelict locos in the "Locomotive Graveyard" at Uyuni, Bolivia (October 2013). A number of large narrow gauge industrial locomotives were built in the U.K. by W. G. Bagnall of Stafford. Generally, these were constructed on the "
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Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina


The Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, often known as Museo MADRE, is a museum of contemporary art in Naples, in Campania in southern Italy. It is housed in the Palazzo Donnaregina, which was adapted for it by the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira. The museum opened in 2005. Among the artists represented in the permanent collections are or were Sol LeWitt, Jeff Koons, Mimmo Paladino, Richard Long, Andy Warhol, Gilbert & George ("Shitty World"), Lucio Fontana, Anish Kapoor, Jannis Kounellis, Giulio
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Museo Sugbo


Museo Sugbo is the Cebu Provincial Museum located in the former Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC), four blocks from Plaza Independencia. Museo Sugbo is housed in what was once called "Cárcel de Cebú", the provincial jail of Cebu. Designed in 1869 by Domingo de Escondrillas, the lone architect in Cebu at the time, the "Cárcel de Cebú" was originally proposed as the "Cárcel del Distrito", the main prison for the Visayas District. This accounts for its relatively large size at the time
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Stern


called for "fashioning" the after part of the ship. This frame is designed to support the various beams that make up the stern. In 1817 the British naval architect Sir Robert Seppings first introduced the concept of the round or "circular" stern. The square stern had been an easy target for enemy cannon, and could not support the weight of heavy stern chase guns. But Seppings' design left the rudder head exposed, and was regarded by many as simply ugly—no American warships were designed with such sterns
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Theophilus P. Chandler Jr.


Theophilus Parsons Chandler Jr. (Sep 7, 1845– August 16, 1928) was an American architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent his career at Philadelphia, and is best remembered for his churches and country houses. He founded the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania (1890), and served as its first head. Born in Boston on 7 Sep 1845, the son of Theophilus Parsons Chandler and his wife Elizabeth J Schlatter, Chandler was educated at Harvard University and in the atelier of
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Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo


The Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo ("University Museum of Contemporary Art"), also known as MUAC, is a large contemporary art museum on the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). It opened in November 2008. The architect was Teodoro González de León, who also co-designed the National Auditorium (Auditorio Nacional), Reforma 222 and the Museo Rufino Tamayo. In 2013 Mexican curator Cuauhtémoc Medina was appointed curator in chief. In 2015 adjunct curators Amanda de la Garza and Alejandra Labastida were included
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Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia


creation of a National Museum, to exhibit objects from state excavations alongside those from Reggio's city collections. The "Soprintendenza Archeologica" was set up in 1925 in Reggio and in 1932 it initiated construction of the building for the "Museo Centrale della Magna Grecia" or "Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia". It was designed by Marcello Piacentini, one of the most famous Italian architects of the first half of the 20th century, who created Italy's first purpose-built museum building (rather than a museum set up in
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Soumaya Mestiri


Soumaya Mestiri (born 1976) is a Tunisian philosopher. After her studies, she was a lecturer at the University Paris, where she supported a thesis in 2003 entitled "The Conception of the Person in the Philosophy of John Rawls: Trial of Reconstruction of the Theory of Justice as Equity," in front of a jury chaired by Emmanuel Picavet, and also including Catherine Audard and Monique Canto-Sperber. Next, she conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve and, in 2005, returned to
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World Qualification Series (2009)


18 - Aug 23" 30th Anniversary of the Lacanau Pro and good conditions this year. Surf, concerts, events scheduled. Check out the video for a summary of the event http://vimeo.com/6994555 "Aug 25 - Aug 30" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 04 - Sep 06" "Sep 09 - Sep 12" "Sep 10 - Sep 13" "Sep 08 - Sep 13" "Sep 15 - Sep 20" "Sep 16 - Sep 22" "Sep
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List of 1982–83 NBA season transactions


1982 Oct 2, 1982 Oct 1, 1982 Sep 30, 1982 Sep 29, 1982 Sep 28, 1982 Sep 27, 1982 Sep 24, 1982 Sep 22, 1982 Sep 20, 1982 Sep 19, 1982 Sep 18, 1982 Sep 17, 1982 Sep 15, 1982 Sep 14, 1982 Sep 13, 1982 Sep 10, 1982 Sep 9, 1982 Sep 7, 1982 Sep 2, 1982 Sep 1, 1982 Aug 31, 1982 Aug 27, 1982 Aug 26, 1982 Aug 16, 1982 Aug 8,
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Soumaya Naamane Guessous


Soumaya Naamane Guessous is a Moroccan sociologist, champion of women's rights, and columnist. She is best known as author of the book "Au-delà de toute pudeur", first published in 1988, about the sexual life of Moroccan women. Based on Naamane Guessous' academic research in the 1980s among 500 women of different social backgrounds and ages, the book became soon a best-seller in Morocco, selling 40.000 copies in 5 years, and was dubbed "a little revolution" in the French presse, observing
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Museo Memoria de la Ciudad


The Museum of the Memory of the City (Museo Memoria de la Ciudad) is located in the Viola House (Casa Viola), one of the nine buildings that make up the architectonic complex Manzana de la Rivera, in front the Government house, in Asunción, capital of Paraguay. This Museum was an idea of the architect Carlos Colombino, and was inaugurated on 14 August 1996. a journey through its different spaces will allow to make a reading of Asuncion's history, in its different phases of development. The objects
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Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts


was designed by the Chilean architect Emile Jéquier in a full-blown Beaux-arts style and is situated in the Parque Forestal of Santiago. Behind it is located the Museum of Contemporary Art ("Museo de Arte Contemporáneo") of the University of Chile, in which is also located the old School of Fine Arts ("Escuela de Bellas Artes"). The museum was officially founded on September 18, 1880, and originally named "Museo National de Pinturas" (National Painting Museum). The president of Chile
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Bruno Sacchi


Bruno Sacchi (1 January 1931, Mantua - 27 January 2011, Florence) was an Italian architect and collaborator of Giovanni Michelucci. He is known for his work on the Museo Marino Marini at the former church of San Pancrazio in Florence, the Museo Marino Marini at the TAU Convent in Pistoia, collaborations with Giovanni Michelucci and designs of private houses. Born in Mantua, he moved to Florence in 1950. In 1961 he graduated from the University of Florence with a degree in Architecture, his thesis on the 'New Headquarters
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Museo del Prado


. The museum is planning a 16% extension in the nearby Salón de Reinos, to be opened in 2019. The building that is now the home of the Museo Nacional del Prado was designed in 1785 by architect of the Enlightenment in Spain Juan de Villanueva on the orders of Charles III to house the Natural History Cabinet. Nonetheless, the building's final function was not decided until the monarch's grandson, Ferdinand VII, encouraged by his wife, Queen María Isabel de Braganza, decided to use it as a new Royal
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Museo Diotti


The Museo Diotti is an art institution and museum displaying 19th and 18th century art, located on Via Formis 17 in the historic center of Casalmaggiore, province of Lombardy, Italy. The museum, opened in 2007, is located in the palace once owned by the local painter Giuseppe Diotti (1779–1846). After a successful career, the painter moved back to Casalmaggiore late in life; and in 1838, he had the architect Fermo Zuccari restructure the palace. By 1865, the structure had become a local gallery, but then
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Sep Ruf


1593 to 1596. In the 17th century it was called the Herzog-Max-Burg. After it was destroyed in World War II., only the renaissance-tower was still standing. The city asked some architects to find ideas for the place and allowed to destroy the old tower. Only Ruf and Theo Papst were the two architects, who wanted to save it. So both got the order to build the New Maxburg. The steel skeleton building followed the structure of the tower and in the middle of the buildings
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Museo Nazionale di San Marco


Museo Nazionale di San Marco is an art museum housed in the monumental section of the medieval Dominican friary dedicated to St Mark, situated on the present-day Piazza San Marco, in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. The museum, a masterpiece in its own right by the fifteenth-century architect Michelozzo, is a building of very first historical importance for the city, and contains the most extensive collection in the world of the works of Fra Angelico, who spent several years of his life as a member of the
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Museo ng Muntinlupa


. The museum standing on a land was designed by Beaudon Causapin, the City Architect of Muntinlupa. The building's facade was designed based on the "salakab", a traditional fishing trap made from weaved bamboo sticks and fasted by rattan rope often used by fishers working in the Laguna de Bay, as a tribute to Muntinlupa's fishing industry which is a major part of the city's economy. The Museo ng Muntinlupa stands five storeys high. The ochre columns and wire netting of the buildings were devised to manage the building
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Aguascalientes City


temporary exhibitions. Last but not least, the neighborhood of La Estación takes its name from the old railway station, inaugurated in 1911 and one of Aguascalientes' architectural and historical treasures. Aguascalientes historic downtown is home to several outstanding museums including the Aguascalientes Museum "(Museo de Aguascalientes)", the city's art museum, housed in a Classical-style building designed by the beloved self-trained architect Refugio Reyes; the Guadalupe Posada Museum "(Museo Guadalupe Posada)", located in the historic nationhood of Triana,
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Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic


Juan Carlos Moral, original owner of the lands of Cofresí. Museo del Ámbar: The business Costa, Inc. A cultural company of family administration, directed by Aldo Costa, founded the Museo del Ámbar Dominicano in the 1982 in the Villa Bentz, (more elegant Hotel of Puerto Plata of the year 1918, built by the Spanish architect Marín Gallart and Cantú). This museum is considered the first Museum of Amber of the Dominican Republic and at the same time, a great historic monument of the city. La Zona Colonial
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Residencia Ermelindo Salazar


located at 18° 0' 44.244" N, 66° 36' 39.9528" W, was designed in 1870 by the Corsican architect Juan Bertoli Calderoni. Its style incorporates elements of Colonial Spanish and Ponce Creole architecture. Its courtyard is surrounded by a gallery. The building was originally built as the former home of Ermelindo Salazar, a prominent landowner, merchant, banker, as well as mayor of Ponce in 1880. In 1959 the building became the first home of the Museo de Arte de Ponce. Museo de Arte de
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Rizal Park Hotel


it as the City Architect's Office but was abandoned after it showed signs of structural defects. It was subsequently used as a manufacturing site for the city's Christmas lanterns before becoming the site of the short-lived Museo ng Maynila in 2007. On 26 April 1991, the National Historical Institute (NHCP) declared the building a National Historical Landmark, thereby, becoming eligible for preservation as a historical site. For several years after the Museo ng Maynila closed, the Manila Army and Navy Club building was left in a state
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Museo de Antropología de Xalapa


The Museo de Antropología de Xalapa () is an anthropological museum in the city of Xalapa, capital of the state of Veracruz in eastern Mexico. The building was designed by the architect Paul Balev at EDSA, 4 E 70th St, New York, N.Y. and opened in 1986. The museum houses the largest collection of artifacts from Mexican Gulf Coast cultures such as the Olmec, the Huastec and the Totonac with more than 25,000 pieces. The most notable pieces in the museum are the giant Olmec heads and the smaller Totonac ones
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Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo


The Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC) or Ibero-American Museum of Contemporary Art is a contemporary art museum located in the city of Badajoz, Province of Badajoz, Extramadura, Spain. It is housed in a building designed by the architect José Antonio Galea. It is on the site of the former Pretrial Detention and Correctional Center, which was built in the mid-1950s on the grounds of the former 17th-century Fort of Pardaleras. The museum has a collection of art works of Spanish, Portuguese, and
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Museo Picasso Málaga


palace itself, the museum incorporates 18 houses from the old "judería" (Jewish quarter). Taken as a whole—both the palace and other buildings—the museum has of of floor space. The museum makes major use of natural light, especially through skylights. The conversion of the building for the Museo Picasso was a major undertaking, led by the American architect Richard Gluckman, along with Isabel Cámara and Rafael Martín Delgado. Gluckman was something of a known quantity in Málaga, having previously successfully remodeled the city's
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Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey


Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (English: Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey), abbreviated as MARCO, is a major contemporary art museum, located in the city of Monterrey, in Nuevo León state of northeastern Mexico. MARCO organizes major exhibitions with regional and international contemporary artists. The museum is in the Centro district of Monterrey, adjacent to the Macroplaza and to the Barrio Antiguo district. MARCO was designed by Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta, in a Minimalist Post-modern architectural style. The museum building opened in 1991.
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Museo del Caracol


The Museo del Caracol (lit. Snail Museum) is a Mexican history museum, at the bottom of the access ramp to the Castillo de Chapultepec in Mexico City. The “Snail Museum” is a spiral shaped building designed by the architect Pedro Ramirez Vazquez. The director is Patricia Torres Aguilar Ugarte. It is opens from Tuesday to Thursday from 9:00 to 16:45. Each of the exhibition halls are found around a central tower. One of the most important pieces of the museum is the bronze handrail of the main stairs.
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Monica Pidgeon


to take up a position as editor of the "RIBA Journal", and stayed there until Peter Murray took over in 1979. Pidgeon was an extraordinary photographer whose black and white photographs were prominently featured in the 2018 exhibition entitled Eternal City: Rome in the Photographs Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Organized by the Polo Museo del Lazio, RIBA, and the British School in Rome, the exhibition was held at the Museo Vittoriano in Rome's Monument to Vittorio Emmanuele II from June to October 2018. Pidgeon's
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Museo de la Casa de Luis Alberto de Herrera


Museo de la Casa de Luis Alberto de Herrera "(translation: House Museum of Luis Alberto de Herrera)" is a museum in the Brazo Oriental "barrio" of Montevideo, Uruguay. The street in which the house is situated, somewhat set back from the road, is now known as "Avenida Dr. Luis Alberto de Herrera" (previously "Avenida Larrañaga"). It is surrounded by a park designed by landscape architect Charles Racine. The building was constructed at the end of the 19th century and was the
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Museo Rufino Tamayo, Oaxaca


The Museo Rufino Tamayo is an art museum in the city of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. The museum contains collections of pre-Columbian art once owned by artist Rufino Tamayo. It is housed in a building constructed in 1979 by the architects Teodoro González de León and Abraham Zabludovsky. The displays are arranged according to aesthetic themes. One of the chief purposes of Tamayo and the museum was to collect the historic pieces, and to protect them from entering the illegal artifact traders market. Tamayo left the museum to his
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