Comments on: Mexico city architecture

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:16:08 +0000

Thanks so much for sharing these photos – they bring back great memories of my visits to D.F., including Frida’s home. Nadine, thanks for putting into words what I feel about Mexico City – it is soulful. Maybe part of it is from the fact that they so lovingly preserve and appreciate their colorful art and rich heritage.

By: nadine

nadine — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:52:29 +0000

JUST GREAT! I’m running out to door to do tedious work today and your pix made me remember my New Years in Mexico City many years ago. It was so wonderful, uplifting and inspiring. So many people say Mexico City is terrible, the cab drivers are this or that, but actually I found it to be a very warm and soulful place. I did go to Oaxaca too but I loved Mexico city the excellent food, the oilcloth fabric stores and the kids playing with parachute army men over the subway grate where the air rushes up in the Zocalo. The best! Thanks for the memories! BTW, all my photos were of tiled bathroom floors, architecture, colors, patterns, signs, the color of where the sky meets the earth near the pyramids. Non creative people thought I was mental.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:52:17 +0000

Its Saint Wilgefortis!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilgefortis

She’s a good one. I learned about her in Robertson Davies’ Deptford Trilogy.

By: morgen

morgen — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:55:01 +0000

Oddly, it depicted a woman with a mustache and goatee. I don’t know what that means.

No way to be sure but my guess is that’s a man in a dress. (Not that I know what that means.) The shape of the torso, arms, hands, and feet lead me to believe that the figure is male. Not to say that a woman couldn’t be stocky with broad shoulders and forearms, but this individual also appears to have no breasts. I think that a woman painted during this period (late 19th century?) might also have been depicted in a longer gown? It looks a little like a Goya to me. There’s someone who loved to paint ugly portraits! Maybe this is the work of a trickster. Or maybe it is a later work, and the moustache is some kind of homage to Frida.

By: Alison Cummins

Alison Cummins — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:12:15 +0000

Hmm, would this be Santa Librada?

Google and Wikipedia turn up references to Santa Librada/St. Liberata, revered in New Mexico as a Penitente saint and patron of to a girl’s college in Columbia and a province of Panama – not specifically to any churches in Mexico City. But it seems possible. She is the patron saint of women desiring freedom from arranged or abusive marriages, as she successfully avoided marriage to a pagan man by praying to be made hideous and growing a beard overnight. (See Saint Wilgefortis.)