page_title: Central Library (UNAM)
section_title: Murals
hierarchical_section_title: Central Library (UNAM) / Murals
caption_attribution_description: Español: En el muro norte del mural Representación Histórica de la Cultura de la Biblioteca Central de la UNAM, en Ciudad Universitaria, México, D.F., México. Del lado izquierdo del eje central del muro norte, aparecen las deidades y escenas asociadas con la fecundidad y con las fuerzas creadoras de la vida: el sol, enmarcado por el mítico Quetzalcóatl en forma de serpiente, benefactor de los hombres; Tláloc, deidad del agua, con una estera a sus espaldas; Huitzilopochtli con su yelmo de colibrí en la cabeza, dios de la guerra y poder solar.
context_page_description: Central Library of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is the main library in the Ciudad Universitaria Campus. It holds one of the largest collections in Mexico. It has a multidisciplinary approach for all the university courses from the adjacent faculties.
  The building is covered with the mural Historical Representation of Culture, created by the Mexican artist Juan O'Gorman. His unique masterpiece has become the most iconic building from the UNAM and from Mexican culture. In July 2007, the UNESCO proclaimed the Central Library, along with the Central Campus of the University City, as World Heritage.
  The Central Library hosts some of the administrative offices of the General Libraries Directorate of the UNAM. The library opened to users on April 5, 1956.
  After 25 years, it underwent its first remodel, changing from a closed to open shelves.
context_section_description: The idea for the murals was proposed by O'Gorman to  (Manager of the Ciudad Universitaria project).lasso was very excited, especially by the idea of making a mural made just out of thousands of colored tiles, something that never had been done at that scale.
  According to the artist, in each of the four walls that make up the surface of the mosaic, he represented three fundamental historical facets of the Mexican culture: the pre-Hispanic era, the most ancient facet; the Spanish colonial era, and the modern age as a result of the two previous periods.
caption: A detail of the building's North Wall
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