Las Bellas Artes y un proyecto imperial : Maximiliano en México (1864-1867) / Esther Acevedo.

Primera edición: 1995, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes; Segunda edición: 2024.

Ciudad de México : Secretaría de Cultura, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2024.

316 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, maps ; 23 x 23 cm.

In Spanish.

The cultural art programs of Maximilian of Habsburg to support his political program, with its tensions, failures and achievements, is captured in this pioneering study by Esther Acevedo, renewed in its explanations and images. Through a network of national and foreign intellectuals and artists, imperial patronage promoted the creation of a gallery of heroes, the circulation of the faces and bodies of rulers, the appreciation of the pre-Hispanic past as a starting point for national history strengthened in the National Museum and in research, as well as the modification of the urban layout of the capital. This book builds a fascinating narrative of the Second Empire that, through a fine plot, about the battlefield for the hegemony of the country in the field of culture and the arts.

Maximiliano en México (1864-1867)

Spanish

September 12, 2024

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306).