may 30, 1882 - 118. The Valley of Mexico from the Hillside of Santa Isabel
Description:
Form:-landscape painting
-romantic and neoclassical aesthetics (new type of genre painting)
-scientific accuracy
-landscape as historical narrative
-light/shadow directs our view
-vast panorama
Content:
-travelers (tiny detail of mother and children walking into nature away from city)
-island in middle of lake
-Tepoyac (spot of Virgin's appearance
-volcanoes
-basilica of guadalupe
Function:
-about history of the land
-celebration of Mexico
Added to timeline:
Date:
may 30, 1882
Now
~ 143 years ago