#chapultepec

Castillo de Chapultepec, México City.

This medium-sized oil painting painted in the mid-18th century is the Museo Nacional de Historia's masterpiece in terms of portraits. The Oaxacan painter Miguel Mateo Maldonado y Cabrera depicted Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the Tenth Muse, based on the portrait by the Spanish artist Juan de Miranda, painted a little more than half a century after the death of the famous writer. Cabrera modified it by placing the nun in a large cell full of books to highlight the wisdom and eagerness to study that characterized the life of the poetess and passionate scientist. Among the books in the library, one can identify the works of the wise Jesuit of the 17th century Athanasius Kircher, who had an important influence on the thinking of his contemporaries. Sor Juana's sharp fingers, which are as white as her face, give the figure an appearance full of spirituality and intelligence. Dressed in the simple habit of the Order of the Jerónimos and wearing on her chest the so-called “shield of nuns”, she is seated in a high-backed chair; her right hand rests on a book, while her left hand holds a rosary in allusion to her piety. Miguel Cabrera, one of the artists who enjoyed the greatest fame among the many painters who flourished during the 18th century in the viceroyalty of New Spain, completed the painting with legends or texts in Latin in a game of intelligence that marks the most important moments of Sor Juana: her birth, her consecration to the convent of San Jerónimo and her death. In it she also expresses her admiration for the Tenth Muse. It is likely that the work was commissioned by the superior of the Jeronymite order.

Maximilian I of Mexico (1832-1867) by Albert Graefle.

Se mantuvo vacío durante la guerra de independencia y en 1833 fue asignado al Colegio Militar. El castillo es muy famoso por ser el sitio de la batalla de Chapultepec durante la guerra México-Estados Unidos. En esta batalla los cadetes del colegio militar defendieron a muerte el castillo el 13 de septiembre de 1847 y se les conoce actualmente como “Los Niños Héroes de Chapultepec” residencia imperial con Maximiliano y Carlota (1864-1867), residencia presidencial y, desde 1939, es sede del Museo Nacional de Historia.

The new species of firefly found in Chapultepec was named Maria Sabina after the shaman/\.

new years day in mexico city

Nature cornered