Title: Un acercamiento a las placas conmemorativas y a los escudos de los siglos XVI a XIX en la Ciudad de México /
Authors: López Camacho, María del Lourdes,
Date: 2019.
Publisher: Secretaria de Cultura, Instituto Nacional de Anthropologian e Historia,
Physical description: 127 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language: Spanish
LC classification: C
Abstract: The present edition is part of the daily work of museum researchers who, as a result of the search for information on pieces from the holdings of the INAH, in this case, the tombstones and shields of the National Museum of History, gave birth to this publication: a window to a past not so remote when the monuments had another meaning for the population, then located in various places, they now surrounded by buildings that have changed over the years. Thus, the sources were attached tombstones in the arcade of the aqueducts that supplied this city. Regarding the sculpture known as El Caballito, the monuments to Cristobal Colon and Cuauhtemoc or those of the funeral type related to the battles of Molino del Rey or Chapultepec, as well as the Casa de la Moneda and the Hospital de San Hipolito,all of them have commemorative plaques that indicate who made them, financed them or the date of their construction. The shields of religious orders and conquerors are also a reference of their time. Their importance has led them to be preserved and today they are protected by the National History Museum.
Contents: Antecedentes históricos de España -- Antecedentes prehispánicos -- Antecedentes en México -- Marco legal -- Piedras conmemorativas en el Museo Nacional de Historia -- Lápidas localizadas en el Museo Nacional de Chapultepec -- Lápida empotrada en el sitio arqueológico el Templo Mayor -- Escudos de armas -- Elementos arquitectónicos -- Comentarios -- Catálogo.
Subject headings (LCSH): Historic sites--Mexico--Mexico City.; Inscriptions--Mexico--Mexico City.; Memorials--Mexico--Mexico City.; Mexico City (Mexico)--Antiquites.; Mexico City (Mexico)--Civilization--Quotations, maxims, etc.; National monuments--Mexico--Mexico City.