page_title: Eugenio Landesio
section_title: Arrival in Mexico
hierarchical_section_title: Eugenio Landesio / Arrival in Mexico
caption_attribution_description: Español: El Puente de San Antonio en el camino de San Ángel junto a Panzacola, 1855 - Eugenio Landesio
context_page_description: Eugenio Landesio was an Italian painter and a pupil of the Hungarian landscape painter Károly Markó the Elder. Landesio’s career in Mexico was marked by his years at the Academy of San Carlos, where he exercised an influence on later exponents of Mexican landscape painting such as José María Velasco.
context_section_description: Like his teacher, Landesio was a Romantic landscape painter, with a tendency to emphasize the sweetness and mellowness of his scenes. His work became known in Mexico when several of his paintings were acquired by the Academy of San Carlos. In January 1855, at the invitation of the Catalan painter Pelegrín Clavé, who was director of the figure painting section of the Academy, he went to Mexico to give classes in landscape, perspective, and the principles of ornamentation.
  Landesio wrote three books on landscape painting that served as textbooks for the students of the Academy of San Carlos: Los cimientos del artista dibujante y pintor. Compendio de perspectivas lineal y aérea, sombras, espejos y refracción, con las nociones necesarias de geometría (The Foundations of the Draftsman Artist and Painter: A compendium of lineal and aerial perspectives, shadows, mirrors, and refraction, with the necessary notions of geography, 1866); La pintura general o de paisaje y la perspectiva en la Academia Nacional de San Carlos (General or Landscape Painting and Perspective in the Academy of San Carlos, 1867); and Escursión a la caverna de Cacahuamilpa y ascensión al cráter del Popocatepetl (Excursion to the Cacahuamilpa Cavern and Ascent to the Crater of Popocatépetl, 1868).
  In 1873, during the administration of President Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, the teachers at the Academy were required to swear adherence to the Reform Laws. Eugenio Landesio refused and had to resign his position. He wanted to be succeeded by José María Velasco, but Ignacio Manuel Altamirano imposed his own candidate, Salvador Murillo, provoking a public dispute between the painter and the novelist.
caption: El Puente de San Antonio en el camino de San Ángel junto a Panzacola, 1855.
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