Jose maria velasco gomez biography of michael

Mexican polymath and artist (1840–1912)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Velasco Gómez and the second or maternal family name is Obregón.

José María Tranquilino Francisco de Jesús Velasco Gómez Obregón, generally known as José María Velasco, (Temascalcingo, 6 July 1840 – Estado de México, 26 August 1912) was a 19th-century Mexican polymath, most famous as a painter who made Mexican geography a symbol of national identity through his paintings.

Was a 19th-century Mexican polymath, most famous as a painter who made Mexican geography a symbol of national identity through his paintings.

Velasco shows us the history of the land, both the natural and the built environments.

He is best known for being a painter, having used his works to transform Mexican geography into a symbol of national identity.

19th-century Mexican polymath, most famous as a painter who made Mexican geography a symbol of national identity through his paintings.

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He was both one of the most popular artists of the time and internationally renowned. He received many distinctions such as the gold medal of the Mexican National Expositions of Bellas Artes in 1874 and 1876; the gold medal of the Philadelphia International Exposition in 1876, on the centenary of U.S.

independence; and the medal of the Paris Universal Exposition in 1889, on the centenary of the outbreak of the French Revolution. His painting El valle de Méxic