Genre: color photographs / Location: Mexico City (Mexico) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Often referred to as a mural, this work is executed in mosaic over a bas-relief surface. The mosaic tiles were created by the, then new, company Mosaicos Venicianos de Mexico, S.A.
Date:: between 1960-1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Borcherdt, Donn
Collection:: Donn Borcherdt Collection

Description:: Often referred to as a mural, this work is executed in mosaic over a bas-relief surface. The mosaic tiles were created by the, then new, company Mosaicos Venicianos de Mexico, S.A.
Date:: between 1960-1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Borcherdt, Donn
Collection:: Donn Borcherdt Collection

Description:: Faculty of Sciences, Esplanade of Prometheus courtyard, with a reflecting pool and fountain in the form of a creature with water spouting out of its mouth.
Date:: between 1960-1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Borcherdt, Donn
Collection:: Donn Borcherdt Collection

Description:: General view across a grass quadrangle bordered by flagstone pavement, with campus buildings in the distance.
Date:: between 1960-1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Borcherdt, Donn
Collection:: Donn Borcherdt Collection

Description:: Detail of the lower portion of a glazed (mosaic) mural by the artist Francisco Eppend Helguera in 1952. It is located on the south wall of the Faculty of Dentistry. The inscription in the lower left corner "MOSAICOS VENECIANOS DE MEXICO SA" documents that the mosaic tiles were created by the, then new, company Mosaicos Venicianos de Mexico, S.A.
Date:: between 1960-1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Borcherdt, Donn
Collection:: Donn Borcherdt Collection

Description:: Glazed (mosaic) mural by the artist Francisco Eppens Helguera in 1952. It is located on the south wall of the Faculty of Dentistry. The inscription in the lower left corner "MOSAICOS VENECIANOS DE MEXICO SA" documents that the mosaic tiles were created by the, then new, company Mosaicos Venicianos de Mexico, S.A.
Date:: between 1960-1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Borcherdt, Donn
Collection:: Donn Borcherdt Collection

Description:: Detail of the lower portion of a glazed (mosaic) mural by the artist Francisco Eppens Helguera in 1952. It is located on the south wall of the Faculty of Dentistry. The inscription in the lower left corner "MOSAICOS VENECIANOS DE MEXICO SA" documents the role of this company in the production of the mosaic.
Date:: between 1960-1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Borcherdt, Donn
Collection:: Donn Borcherdt Collection

Description:: The "Conquest of Energy," a mural by José Chávez, created in 1952, is located on the north face of the Alfonso Caso Auditorium (former Faculty of Sciences and Postgraduate Unit).
Date:: between 1960-1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Borcherdt, Donn
Collection:: Donn Borcherdt Collection

Description:: Faculty of Sciences, Esplanade of Prometheus courtyard, with the sculpture titled El Prometeo Quetzalcoatl, by the Columbian sculptor Rodrigo Arenas Betancourt, completed in 1952.
Date:: between 1960-1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Borcherdt, Donn
Collection:: Donn Borcherdt Collection

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