Hospice Santo Tomas de Villanueva and its surroundings
By: [concept and book coordination : Elena Horz Balbés ; book design : Begoña Sainz]
Contributors: Museo Kaluz
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Museo Kaluz
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Mexico City, Mexico]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9786079660468
Subjects: History; Historic buildings; Conservation and restoration; Architecture; Exhibitions; Description and travel; Travel; Museo Kaluz
Description: History of the Hospice de Santo Tomás de Villanueva (formerly Hotel de Cortés) and now Museo Kaluz, a colonial building built in 1780 by the Augustunian order designed as a resting place for travelling monks.
Notes: "The cover of this book shows a detail of the map "Vue Genérale de Mexico" (General View of Mexico), ca. 1865. the church of San Hipolito is in the lower right, kitty-corner from Alameda Park, opposite civil constructions, one of which must have been the Hospice of Santo Tomas de Villanueva, now the Kaluz Museum, whose impressive facade is crowned by the niche reproduced here, architectural views by nineteenth-century artists lacked the detail and precision of today's aerial views and artists tended to take liberties in rendering the proportions of buildings and their layout." --Page [4].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-154).

In Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Antonio Del Valle Ruiz; title: Tenochtitlan, Cuepopan, and Iztacallecan / Enrique Vela; title: The colonial city / Elena Horz Balbas; title: An unparalleled project: from augustinian hospice to the Kaluz Museum / María del Consuelo Maquívar; title: The surroundings / María Cristina Montoya Rivero; title: Hospice of Santo Tomas de Villanueva: its potential for intervention and restoration / Francisco Pérez de Salazar Verea; title: To be "Where the Trunk is" the letter-trees of Vicente Rojo's mural / Cuauhtémoc Medina; title: Appendix 1; title: Re-creations of the map of Mexico-Tenochtitlan; title: Appendix 2; title: The Hospice of Santo Tomas de Villanueva of the province of the Philippines / Pablo García Cisneros; title: Appendix 3; title: Chronology.