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Oct 24, 2018 · 331. Real dogs next to a statue. flanghor/cc by 2.0. The Xoloitzcuintli (Mexican Hairless Dog) is a curious, ancient breed of dog. Head to Mexico City ’s Dolores Olmedo Museum, and you’ll...
Located in Xochimilco, at Mexico City’s southern extreme, the Dolores Olmedo Museum is housed in a rambling stone structure, originally dating from the Sixteenth Century, formerly known as the Hacienda La Noria. By donating her art collection to the people of Mexico, Dolores Olmedo Patiño created a cohesive whole, where treasures of the fine ...
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Dec 10, 2019 · December 10, 2019. Revered by Aztecs, Mexican hairless dog in style again in hipster era. by Natalia Cano. Xoloitzcuintles (ancient Mexican hairless dogs) play next to a Xoloitzcuintle statue...
Aug 19, 2019 · The Xoloitzcuintli (Mexican Hairless Dog) is a curious, ancient breed of dog. Head to Mexico City’s Dolores Olmedo Museum, and you’ll have a chance to see these beautiful, bald creatures up close. Skeletal remains of “Xolos” have been discovered in archeological excavations and dated well over 3,500 years old. Perhaps strangest of all ...
- Collections in This Museum
- The Main Gallery, Paintings of Diego Rivera
- Mural Painting
- Mayan
- The Kitchen
- Portraits and Self-Portraits
- Sunsets in Acapulco
- Lithography
- Drawings
- Frida Kahlo
The museum owns a very important part of the work of Diego Rivera, who was one of the most significant and probably the most well-known of the Mexican painters of the twentieth century. We recommend visiting the Diego Rivera studio house and the Anahuacalli Museumwhere you can see more of his art works and know more about his life. There are also i...
Diego Rivera is best known for his murals. Also on view here are some of his large-format easel paintings. Born in 1886 in Guanajuato, a city in the central area of Mexico with mining and literary and artistic traditions, Rivera was one of the painters of the early twentieth-century painting movement known as the Mexican School. He died in Mexico C...
In what was the chapel of the former Hacienda de La Noria can be seen the sketches for the murals that Rivera later painted at the University of Chapingo; “The Execution of Maximilian of Habsburg”, 1935, a sketch that later was a mural at the National Palace; and Frozen Assets, 1931, the only fresco included in this collection and one of the module...
The Mayan pieces shown here are an example of this culture’s inventiveness and skill in ceramics and sculpture. Here you can also find five Rivera watercolors of Mayan motifs painted to illustrate the book The Land of the Pheasant and the Deer, 1935. Also in this gallery is one of its most-liked works, “The Watermelons”, 1957, not only because this...
A typical kitchen from Mexico’s colonial period is part of the Olmedo Museum. The walls of this room are made of Talavera tiles from the state of Puebla, which were used for the Hacienda’s original structure. Here are also exhibited silver tableware specially made for Emperor Maximilian of Habsburg, as well as plates made to commemorate the first c...
This room displays portraits of Dolores Olmedo and her family, drawn or painted by Rivera. The collection includes four self-portraits by Rivera, which show the features for which with candor he was called “el sapo-rana” (the toad): bulging eyes, drooping eyelids, a broad and jolly face with flaccid skin. In 1954 Rivera’s then-wife Frida Kahlo fina...
During Rivera’s stay in Acapulco after cobalt treatments for prostate cancer, he set about documenting, day by day, the ever-changing effects of the light of the setting sun over the Bay of Acapulco. The series amounts to twenty-five paintings.
In this gallery are shown the lithographic works that Diego Rivera produced from 1930 to 1932. A considerable number of these works represent scenes from his murals, in particular “Agrarian Leader Zapata”, “The Boy with a Taco”, and “The Dream, the Night of the Poor”. There are also portraits, among them nudes of Dolores Olmedo and Frida Kahlo and ...
These drawings reflect Rivera’s special gift for the medium; they are executed with extreme ease and liberty. Some, such as “The Portrait of Pita Amor”, 1957, were conceived as drawings from the beginning and are named “conclusions”. Other drawings are simply skeletons of ideas that would be developed later. Rivera created a floral icon unavoidably...
Frida Kahlo was born in 1907 in Coyoacán, which was then at the outskirts of Mexico City. At the edge of six she contracted polio and began her life-long struggle to survive, a struggle which apparently gave direction to her indomitable spirit. In 1925 she also suffered a terrible bus accident, which left her a virtual invalid for the rest of her l...
It houses the world’s largest collection of works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, as well as pre-Hispanic, colonial, folk, and contemporary art. The museum, set in a lush garden with peacocks and native Xoloitzcuintle dogs, reflects Olmedo’s dedication to preserving and promoting Mexican culture. What makes the Dolores Olmedo Museum ...
Museo Dolores Olmedo is a good place in which to continue your understanding of Diego Rivera. Housed in a beautiful colonial estate in Xochomilco, the museum grounds are beautiful, and known for two things: Peacocks and Xoloitzcuintli (Mexican hairless dogs).
- Avenida México 5843 16030 México, D.F. Mexico
