Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL)
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The building is located, is the Palace of the Ministry of Communications and Public Works building of eclectic architecture, common in the early twentieth century, but predominantly neoclassical and Renaissance. The building was designed by the National Art Museum in 1982 and renovated in 1997.
It is easily identifiable by the large equestrian statue of Charles IV of Spain, who was a Spanish monarch just before Mexico gained its independence. The statue, commonly known as El Caballito, originally in the square of the base, but was moved to different locations. According to the plaque at its base, Mexico, preserved as a sign not of praise for a Spanish king, but as a work of art. He came to this place in 1979.
The permanent collection is organized into 3 major periods that encompass and summarize the history of Mexican art from the mid sixteenth century until the first half of the twentieth century, the periods are:
1550-1821 Western Assimilation
Nation Building 1810-1910
Plastic strategies for a new nation 1910-1955.
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