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The Emperor of Mexico’s screen: Maximilian I’s ‘biombo’ in Trieste
07/2017 | 1372 | 159
Pages: 536-543
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Author:
Morena, Francesco (Morena, Francesco)
Subjects
artists:
Villegas, Pedro de, act. 1700-1720
dates:
1710-1719
museums and institutions:
Museo Storico del Castello di Miramare, Trieste, Italy
patrons:
Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico, Archduke of Austria,1832-1867
subjects:
Biographies / Screens (furniture) / Mexican / Mexican painting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
18. The Castello di Miramare, Trieste, designed by Carl Junker. 1856-70
Attributed works:
21. The visit of the Viceroy Francisco Fernandez de la Cueva, Duke of Alburquerque and Marquess of Cuellar, and his wife to the Canal de la Viga and to the quarter of Ixtacalco, by Pedro de Villegas. 1706 (Museo Soumaya, Mexico City)
Western art unattributed:
17. Portrait of Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, c.1864. Photograph (Library of Congress, Washington. Copy photograph by J. Malovich, Trieste. Original glass negative made by Mathew Brady Studio)
Western art unattributed:
19. Chinoiserie scenes, by an anonymous Mexican painter. c.1718 (Museo Storico del Castello di Miramare, Trieste)
Western art unattributed:
20. The Conquest of Mexico, by Pedro de Villegas. 1718. Reverse of Fig.19