page_title: Manuel Tolsá
section_title: Tolsá's works in Mexico
hierarchical_section_title: Manuel Tolsá / Tolsá's works in Mexico
context_page_description: Manuel Tolsá was a prolific Neoclassical architect and sculptor in Spain and Mexico. He served as the first director of the Academy of San Carlos.
context_section_description: Conclusion of the work on the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral, including statuary (cupola and facade). This was finished in 1813.
  The Palacio de Minería, Mexico City (1797–1813)
   
  Equestrian statue of Charles IV (known as El Caballito) (1796–1803; cast on August 4, 1802). Alexander von Humboldt wrote of this statue, "M. Tolsa, professor of sculpture at Mexico, was even able to cast an equestrian statue of King Charles the Fourth; a work which, with the exception of the Marcus Aurelius at Rome, surpasses in beauty and purity of style everything which remains in this way in Europe."
  The old palace of Buenavista (today the Museum of San Carlos)
  The palace of the marqués del Apartado, in front of the Templo Mayor, Mexico City (1810). This is where King Ferdinand VII would have stayed if he had arrived in Mexico.
  Main altar principal of the Cathedral of Puebla and an extant statue of the Virgin in wood, also at Puebla
  Main altar of the church of Santo Domingo
  Main altar of the church of La Profesa. The face of the Virgin seen on the right was apparently modeled on that of "La Güera" Rodríguez (María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco y Osorio Barba).
  Altar "La Purísima Concepción" in the church of La Profesa
  Main altar of the Carmelite convent dedicated to San Felipe de Jesús (not extant)
  The fountain at the beginning of the Camino Real to Toluca — an obelisk and a pyramid (not extant)
  Bust of for the tomb of Hernán Cortés, in the Hospital de Jesús
  Bronze statues of Jesus in the Cathedral of Morelia
  Design of the Neoclassical part of the Church of Loreto
  Plans of the Hospicio Cabañas in Guadalajara
  Plans of the convent of the Propaganda Fide in Orizaba
  Unrealized projects for a bull ring, the palace of the governor of Durango, a cemetery, a convent, etc.
  Celda de la Marquesa de Selva Nevada in the Ex convento de Regina Porta Coeli. Now is the Celda Contemporánea in to Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana (Cloister of Sor Juana University) in Mexico City.
caption: Equestrian statue of Charles IV of Spain (also known as El Caballito) on Plaza Manuel Tolsá
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