Museo Nacional de San Carlos
The Museo Nacional de San Carlos (National Museum of San Carlos) is a Mexican national art museum devoted to European art, located in the Cuauhtémoc borough in Mexico City. The museum is housed in the Palace of the Count of Buenavista, a neoclassical building at Puente de Alvarado No. 50, Colonia Tabacalera, Mexico City.
Museo Nacional de San Carlos

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- Name
- Museo Nacional de San Carlos
- Founded
- 1968
- Headquarters
- Mexico City
- Part of
- Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura
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The Museo Nacional de San Carlos (National Museum of San Carlos) is a Mexican national art museum devoted to European art, located in the Cuauhtémoc borough in Mexico City. The museum is housed in the Palace of the Count of Buenavista, a neoclassical building at Puente de Alvarado No. 50, Colonia Tabacalera, Mexico City.
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Overview
Overview
It contains works by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Parmigianino, Frans Hals, Anthony van Dyck, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Auguste Rodin and other well-known European painters and sculptors.
It is associated with Mexico. The record gives 1968 as its date of establishment or first appearance. The recorded subject matter is art. It forms part of Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura. Its recorded seat is Mexico City. It is recorded in the collection of Colonia Tabacalera.

La Purísima Concepción (Cristóbal de Villalpando) en el Museo Nacional de San Carlos
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Manifestación en contra del retiro de estatuas del Che y Fidel Castro por la Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Museo Nacional de San Carlos • Location — Colonia Tabacalera, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City • Public Transit — Museo San Carlos bus station • Website — www.mnsancarlos.com
The institution
The institution
• Illustration — Entrance The museum was founded in 1968 by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura to house the collection of European art.
Directors
Directors
• 1997 - 2004: Roxana Velásquez Martínez del Campo •... - 2011: Maria Fernanda Matos Moctezuma • 2011 -...: Carmen Gaitán
Other
Other
• Flemish tapestry Battle, from the 17th century
Identity and overview
Identity and overview
The following is established of the heading itself. The register further records that museo Nacional de San Carlos is recorded from 1968. The same evidence establishes that museo Nacional de San Carlos is associated with Mexico.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
- Mexico
Catalogued output
Publications and programmes
The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Institutional cataloguing adds that ciudad de México. Representaciones patológicas en la cerámica peruana / texto médico del Dr. Lastres n; fichas arqueológicas del Sr. Muelle; términos quechuas del Sr. Farfán; fotografías del Sr.
Paintings
Paintings
• Illustration — Tintoretto Portrait of a Man, 16th century • Illustration — Anthony van Dyck, Head of a man with a beard, 17th century • Illustration — François Boucher, Portrait of a child with a hat, 18th century • Illustration — Max Koner, Portrait of Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, 1904 • Illustration — Pedro Campaña, The Seven Virtues, ca. 1550 • Illustration — Alonso Cano, John the Evangelist gives the communion to the Virgin, 17th century • Illustration — Juan Carreño de Miranda, Queen Mariana of Austria, 1673 • Illustration — Attributed to Piero di Cosimo, Portrait of a boy, ca. 1500 • Illustration — Attributed to Piero di Cosimo, The Virgin, child Jesus and John the Baptist, ca. 1500 • Illustration — Lucas Cranach the Elder, Adam and Eve, 1530 • Illustration — Henri Decaisne, Odalisque, first half of the 19th century • Illustration — Gaudenzio Ferrari, Hieronymus, first half of the 16th century • Illustration — Frans Hals, Unknown man, 1634 • Illustration — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The child Saint John the Baptist, 19th century • Illustration — Circle of Jan Matsys, Madonna and Child, 16th century • Illustration — Master of the Tiburtine Sibyl, The resurrection of Lazarus, ca. 1480 • Illustration — Abraham Mignon, Still life, second half of the 17th century • Illustration — Parmigianino, Holy Family, first half of the 16th century • Illustration — Pietro Perugino, Virgin and Child crowned by two angels, first quarter of the 16th century • Illustration — Pontormo, Virgin and Child, 16th century • Illustration — Joaquim Sorolla, Mending nets, 1901 • Illustration — Bernardo Strozzi, Francis of Assisi, 17th century • Illustration — Anthony van Dyck, Head of a Bearded Man, first half of the 17th century • Illustration — Joris van Son, Still life with vegetables and fruit, 1661 • Illustration — Francisco Zurbarán, Supper at Emmaus, 17th century • Illustration — Anonymous painter, Portrait of the Fagoaga Arozqueta family -from Mexico City-, ca. 1735 • Illustration — Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of a man in a fur coat, 17th century
Sculptures
Sculptures
• James Pradier, Bacchante • Auguste Rodin, The call to arms • Miguel E. Schulz, Diana • Manuel Vilar, Charles Borromeo
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Museo Nacional de San Carlos”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q6940507: Museo Nacional de San Carlos
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References
Citations
References
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Institutional database
OpenStreetMap gazetteer entry for Museo Nacional de San Carlos, 50, Avenida México-Tenochtitlan, Tabacalera, Ciudad de México, Cuauhtémoc, Ciudad de México, 06030, MéxicoOpenStreetMap Foundation
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Further particulars
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This entry is compiled from 8 catalogued sources across 6 independent registers. The registers consulted are Crossref registry, DOAJ, OpenStreetMap Foundation, Wikidata, Wellcome Collection and Wikipedia. Every statement above is held against the register that stated it; where the registers are silent, the entry is silent.
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