ArcadópolisJosé María Velasco
Mexican, 1840–1912. 19th-century landscape painting (Academy of San Carlos)
José María Velasco trained at the Academy of San Carlos under the Italian landscape painter Eugenio Landesio, and painted the Valley of Mexico again and again from the hills around it. He was also a naturalist who studied botany, zoology and geology; in 1879 he published a study of the axolotls of Lake Santa Isabel, a species that now bears his name, Ambystoma velasci. He won medals in Philadelphia (1876) and Paris (1889), was made a knight of the Legion of Honour, and taught perspective and landscape to Diego Rivera.
10 works in the Museum
The Valley of Mexico from the Hill of Santa Isabel1875
The Metlac Ravine1893
The Curved Bridge of the Metlac Ravine1881
The Mexico City Alameda1866
Oaxaca Cathedral1887
The Goatherd of San Ángel1863
Ahuehuete (Montezuma Cypress)c. 1870–1875
The Baths of Nezahualcóyotl1878
Scene from the Quaternary Upper Paleolithic Period
Flora and Fauna from the Miocene Cenozoic Period. Evolution of Continental Life on Earth
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