D. Francisco I. Madero's Calavera | Calavera de D. Francisco I. Madero
Detail from | Detalle de: La calavera revolucionaria, circa 1914
The Revolutionary Calavera | La calavera revolucionaria
José Guadalupe Posada (illustrator | ilustrador)
Anonymous (author) | Anónimo (autor)
La calavera revolucionaria
[Ciudad de] México: Imprenta de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, circa 1914
The Mexican Revolutionary battles mentioned in these verses suggest they were written around 1914 when the Constitutionalists (or Carrancistas) were fighting the “rebels” Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa. They lament the suffering and death that the violence of war brought to ordinary citizens. The two calaveras present opposite sides: a bourgeois (left) and a rebel, who, by his outfit and moustache style, can easily be identified as Pancho Villa.
De acuerdo con las batallas de la Revolución mexicana mencionadas aquí, esta pieza es de alrededor de 1914 cuando los Constitucionalistas (o Carrancistas) combatían a los “rebeldes” Emiliano Zapata y Pancho Villa. Lamenta el sufrimiento y la muerte que la violencia de la guerra trajo a los ciudadanos comunes. Las calaveras presentan lados opuestos, un burgués y un rebelde, que, por su atuendo y bigote, es el inconfundible Pancho Villa.
: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs
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