| Creator |
Arciniega, Claudio de -- Architect -- Spanish -- Male; Ortiz de Castro, Jose Damian -- Architect -- Mexican -- Male; Tolsa, Manuel -- Architect -- Spanish -- Male |
| Title |
Catedral Metropolitana de la Asuncion de Maria (Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary); Zocalo (Plaza de la Constitucion, Constitution Square) |
| Spatial Coverage |
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico |
| Description |
Exterior, south facade from Zocalo. Photographed October 1975. |
| Work Dates |
1563-1667 Claudio de Arciniega design; after 1786 Jose Damian Ortiz de Castro and Manuel Tolsa west facade; completed 1813. |
| Date Earliest |
1563 |
| Century |
16, 17, 18, 19 |
| Style Period |
Baroque |
| Culture |
Mexican |
| Subject |
Ceremonial structures -- Religious structures -- Religious buildings -- Churches -- Cathedrals; Open spaces -- Squares -- Plazas; Towers (single built works) -- Bell towers; Architectural elements -- Openings -- Portals |
| Image Source |
Peter Goss. |
| Rights |
Digital image copyright 2011, College of Architecture + Planning, University of Utah. All rights reserved. |
| Contributing Institution |
University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Special Collections and the School of Architecture |
| CA+P Accession No. |
P0305, F01 ARCH-29682 |
| Format |
image/jpeg |
| Type |
Image |
| Digitization Specifications |
Scanned with Nikon LS-4000 ED film scanner and saved as uncompressed TIFF. Color corrected manually in Photoshop CS and converted to JPEG. |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6z3231p |
| Setname |
uu_cap_coa |
| ID |
91217 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6z3231p |
