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Toussaint, Manuel

    Full Name: Toussaint, Manuel

    Gender: male

    Date Born: 1895

    Date Died: 1955

    Place Born: Mexico City, Lea, New Mexico

    Place Died: New York, NY, USA

    Home Country/ies: Mexico

    Subject Area(s): architecture (object genre), Colonial Latin American architecture styles, Colonial Latin American styles, Colonial Spanish American, colonialism, colonization, Latin American, sculpture (visual works), and Spanish (culture or style)

    Institution(s): National Autonomous University of Mexico


    Overview

    Early work on the history of colonial Spain; architectural history of Latin America; created the Institute for aesthetic reserach at the University of Mexico. (Laboratorio de Arte)


    Selected Bibliography

    Tasco. Mexico 1931.; Arte mudejar en America. Mexico.; La catedral y las iglesias de Puebla. Mexico, 1954.


    Sources

    Bazin 454



    Contributors: Lee Sorensen


    Citation

    Lee Sorensen. "Toussaint, Manuel." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/toussaintm/.


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