Exhibition: José María Velasco – a Mexican star at London’s National Gallery

27 March 2025, The Tablet

Faith both in God and in nature: polymath Velasco’s Pirámides del sol y de la luna (1878)

Colección Pérez Simón, Mexico

Portraits of a lost world

Velasco caught his country on the cusp of a change, spinning it into the new era we inhabit today

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