COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Casa de Los Azulejos
Alternate Title:
House of Tiles
Image View:
Close-up of tiled wall of the Casa de los Azulejos
Creator:
unknown (Mexican)
Location:
site: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Location Note:
Centro Historico, Calle Francisco I. Madero and la Calle Cinco de Mayo
GPS:
+19.434351-99.137271
Date:
1708-1737 (alteration); ca. 1596 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Mexican
Style Period:
Poblano; Sixteenth century; Spanish Colonial
Work Type 1:
mansion
Classification:
architecture
Material:
stone; glazed ceramic tile
Technique:
construction (assembling); fabrication attributes: ceramics
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; business, commerce and trade; decorative arts
Description:
The 16th-century Casa de los Azulejos is clad with 18th-century blue-and-white talavera tiles It was originally the residence of the Count del Valle de Orizaba. In 1919, Sanborns (a retail pharmacy chain) acquired its most famous branch location, the Casa de los Azulejos, a major Mexico City tourist attraction and national monument. This is probably the world's only pharmacy decorated with a mural by José Clemente Orozco. In 1925 he painted the privately commissioned mural Omniscience in the Casa de los Azulejos, when the building was the site of the World-Wide Worker movement. It has also served as the Jockey Club of Mexico. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia…
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Four
Identifier:
1A2-M-MC-CA-A8
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Casa de Los Azulejos
