01 de Apr 1997 - 31 de Jul 1997
Pedro Gualdi was identified as an urban landscape painter of Mexico City during the second third of the 19th century. The purpose of the exhibition El escenario urbano de Pedro Gualdi. 1808-1857 was to review the importance of Gualdi in the definition of this genre so that, in the landscape field, architecture acquired its own dynamics as the almost exclusive main character of the artwork.
The arrangement of nearly a hundred pieces including oil paintings, watercolors, lithographs, and photographs, coming from museums and private collections of Italy, the United States and, of course, Mexico, were combined to highlight the diversity of formal solutions that turned Gualdi into a prominent architectural painter. This also allowed to show the links that existed between his pictorial work and his graphic production, to examine his work as an illustrator and as an editor, mainly through Monumentos de México; and, to point out the influence of the artist on several prominent contemporaries such as John Philips, Lorenzo de la Hidalga, Urbano López and Casimiro Castro.