Guillermo Tovar y de Teresa

Guillermo Tovar de Teresa (

Early years

He was interested in investigating all the branches of his ancestry, passing through some of the largest and oldest families in the

« There is no sacred art (...) where there has been a liberal reform»

— Guillermo Tovar de Teresa[18]

Topics addressed in his works

His teachers were authors of the canonical works of our history and literature I knew by heart Lucas Alamán, Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, Carlos María de Bustamante, Joaquín García Icazbalceta, Herrera, Juana Inés de la Cruz), Vicente Riva Palacio and he could recite them at once.

— Rafael Tovar and Teresa, about his brother.^[19]

He wrote, among others, about the following topics:^[20]

• Baroque art
• Art of Mexico
• Culture of Mexico
• Viceregal art
• Architecture and carpentry
  Mudejar in the New Spain
• Gerónimo de Balbás
• Miguel Cabrera
• Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City
  (organs and altarpieces)
• Historic Center of Mexico City
• Photographer's, he was a deep connoisseur of the works by Julio Michaud, Désiré Charnay and Alfred Briquet
• History of Mexico
• Luis Lagarto
• New Spanish nuns
• Viceroyalty of New Spain
  utopia

The Council of the Chronicle of Mexico City

Constituted before a

The publisher Editorial Trama, of Madrid, is formally the publisher of the Chronicle Council of Mexico City. Some of his publications are the following:

• In 2007, he published, together with the Secretariat of Education of the Federal District, the book Ciudad de México: Crónica de sus delegaciones (Mexico City: Chronicle of its delegations). It includes a presentation by Guillermo Tovar de Teresa and, at the end, an article by Carlos Monsiváis, one of the council members, along with Jesús Ramírez Cuevas. The climax is from Salvador Flores.
• In 2009, he published Ciudad de México: Crónica de sus delegaciones (Censorship and revolution: Books prohibited by the Inquisition of Mexico: 1790–1819), by the authorship of Guillermo Tovar de Teresa and the doctor in history and specialist in nineteenth-century Mexico Cristina Gómez Álvarez. This is an edition by the Windward collection.

Collecting and other interests

• He had, within his vast collection of books, "first editions of (works of)
  Antonio de Mendoza y Pacheco.^[21][3]
• He worked as an advisor, before 1983, of Juan José Bremer in the Undersecretariat of Culture, after having also worked with Pedro Ramírez Vázquez.
• He headed, next to the restaurateur
  restoration, of the Equestrian statue of Charles IV of Spain in Mexico city knowns as El Caballito, by Manuel Tolsá. .^[22][23]
• He opened in Facebook a group that made a proactive space where he continuously difussed his musical, artistic, historical interests.[23]
• He was an advisor, since its inception, on the project for the foundation of Casa Lamm.^[14]
• He gave a keynote speech on the occasion of the LXXXV anniversary of the foundation of the Miguel Lerdo de Tejada Library.^[24]

«We Mexicans (...) have a bad habit of devouring ourselves, of destroying ourselves after the conquest.»

— Guillermo Tovar de Teresa^[25]

Other acknowledgments

• Assembly of Representatives of the Federal District
  .
• Royal House of Savoy
  (2007).

Post Mortem

• A tribute to him was held in the Auditorium "
  Secretary of Public Education.^[21]
• His brothers decided to create the Guillermo Tovar de Teresa Award, which will recognize, every two years, the trajectory of a Mexican whose work seeks to preserve the heritage of Mexico.^[21]
• On August 6, 2014 a tribute was held in his memory at the
  National Council for Culture and the Arts, Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, the director of the Economic Culture Fund, José Carreño Carlón, the writer Homero Aridjis.^[26]
• On December 20, 2018, it was announced that the home of Guillermo Tovar de Teresa would be the
  Soumaya Museum is located, sponsored by the Slim Foundation.^[27][28]

He published (some co-authored, but most individually) a total of 39 works in 44 volumes, including:[20]

• Pintura y escultura del Renacimiento en México (Painting and sculpture of the Renaissance in Mexico) (1979)
• Noticias históricas de la Delegación Miguel Hidalgo (Historical news of the Miguel Hidalgo Delegation^[14]
• México barroco (Baroque Mexico) (1981)
• Apuntes y fotografías de México a mediados del siglo XIX – Álbum fotográfico mexicano – 1858– fotografías de Désiré Charnay (Notes and photographs of Mexico in the mid-19th century – Mexican photo album – 1858– photographs of Désiré Charnay published by Julio Michaud Publisher: Celanese mexicana) (1981)
• Renacimiento en México: artistas y retablos (Renaissance in Mexico: artists and altarpieces) (1982)
• La ciudad de México y la utopía en el siglo XVI (Mexico City and utopia in the 16th century) (1987)
• El arte de los Lagarto, iluminadores novohispanos de los siglos XVI y XVII (The art of the Lagarto, New Spanish illuminators of the 16th and 17th centuries) (1988)
• Bibliografía novohispana de arte (New Spanish bibliography of art) (two volumes, 1988)
• Miguel Cabrera, pintor de cámara de la reina celestial (Miguel Cabrera, chamber painter of the celestial queen) (1985)^[6]
• Gerónimo de Balbás en la Catedral de México (Gerónimo de Balbás in the Cathedral of Mexico) (1990)
• Los escultores mestizos del Barroco novohispano (The mestizo sculptors of the New Spanish Baroque) (1991)
• Pintura y escultura en Nueva España (Painting and sculpture in New Spain (1557–1640)) (four volumes, 1992)
• La ciudad de los palacios (The city of palaces) Publisher: Vuelta, (1990); prologue by Enrique Krauze^[29]
• Arte novohispano (New Spanish art) (three volumes, 1992)
• La utopía novohispana del siglo XVI: lo bello, lo verdadero y lo bueno (The 16th-century New Spanish utopia: the beautiful, the true and the good) (1992, in collaboration with Miguel León-Portilla and Silvio Zavala)^[20]
• Repertorio de artistas en México: artes plásticas y decorativas (Directory of artists in Mexico: plastic and decorative arts (three volumes, 1995)
• Cartas a
  Mariano Otero
  : 1829–1845 (Letters to Mariano Otero: 1829–1845) (1996)
• Catálogo de la colección de
  ex libris
  by Guillermo Tovar de Teresa) (2002)
• La ciudad de los palacios: crónica de un patrimonio perdido (The city of palaces: chronicle of a lost heritage)^[20]
• La ciudad: un palimpsesto (The city: a palimpsest) (2004)
• El Pegaso o el mundo barroco novohispano en el siglo XVII (The Pegasus or the baroque world of New Spain in the 17th century (1993, reissue 2006)^[20]
• Crónica de una familia entre dos mundos: los
  Ribadeneira en México y España (Chronicle of a family between two worlds: the Ribadeneira in Mexico and Spain) (2009)^[20]
• Diccionario de artistas del siglo XX (Dictionary of artists of the twentieth century) (the new edition, which would include artists born before 1955, was being prepared)[9]

Editions of the Council of the Chronicle of Mexico City

• Coedition Council of the Chronicle of Mexico City –
  ISBN 9786077622130

• Prologue of the book Luis G. Jordá. A Catalan musician in Porfirian Mexico, by Cristian Canton Ferrer (2011)
• Text in the volume of photographs Mexico 1910–1921: an imaginary of the Mexican Revolution . Process. 2010.^[30]
• Prologue of the book: Kahlo, G., and Greenwood Peabody, H. (2009). "Two views of the monumental architecture of Mexico." Mexico: Salinas Group.
• "La portada principal de la primitiva Catedral de México" In Collection of studies in tribute to Mariano Fernández Daza, IX Marquis de la Encomienda. Modesto Miguel Rangel Mayoral. Santa Ana de Almendralejo University Center, 2009.
• Presentation of Manual de la gente bien, by Guadalupe Loaeza (1995).
• Compilation of Bordados y bordadores, by Virginia Armella de Aspe (1992).

About Guillermo Tovar de Teresa

• Guzmán Urbiola, Xavier (2013). Guillermo Tovar de Teresa: biobibliographic sketch . Mexico: DGE / Equilibrista.^[31]

Unpublished

• History of Mexico^[3]

See also

• Rafael Tovar y de Teresa
• Soumaya Museum
• Conservation and restoration
• Historiography
• Iconography
• La Profesa (Oratory of San Felipe Neri)
• Francisco Cervantes de Salazar (16th century chronicler)
• Luis González Obregón (chronicler of Mexico City until 1937)
• Miguel León-Portilla (chronicler of Mexico City in 1974 and 1975)
• José Luis Martínez (chronicler of Mexico City from 1975 to 1985)
• Franz Mayer Traumann (German-Mexican collector)
• Carlos Monsiváis (chronicler of Mexico City)
• Salvador Novo (chronicler of Mexico City until 1974)
• Artemio de Valle Arizpe

External links

• About the catalog of Guillermo Tovar de Teresa's collections (interview with Fernando Tovar y de Teresa) in Spanish

References