Documentos fundacionales de la Academia de San Carlos

The current directors of the Faculty of Arts and Design, as well as Architecture, of the UNAM, doctors Gerardo García Luna Martínez and Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes, respectively, agreed to celebrate the 240th anniversary of the founding of the Real Academia de San Carlos in 1781 in Mexico City with a special edition, reflecting on the history in common with Spain and at the same time recovering the origin of its disciplines. The book was completed with a posthumous historical text by the recently deceased specialist, Eduardo Báez Macías (1931- 2020). In this book, the main historic handwriten manuscripts and the official documents of the foundation of the Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico were selected, photographed and transcribed. The current directors of the Faculty of Arts and Design, as well as Architecture, of the UNAM, doctors Gerardo García Luna Martínez and Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes, respectively, agreed to celebrate the 240th anniversary of the founding of the Real Academia de San Carlos in 1781 in Mexico City with a special edition, reflecting on the history in common with Spain and at the same time recovering the origin of its disciplines. The book was completed with a posthumous historical text by the recently deceased specialist, Eduardo Báez Macías (1931- 2020). In this book, the main historic handwriten manuscripts and the official documents of the foundation of the Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico were selected, photographed and transcribed.