Guillermo Tovar y de Teresa

Portrait of Guillermo Tovar de Teresa in his childhood, in the museum Guillermo Tovar de Teresa House (Valladolid 52, Colonia Roma, Mexico City).

He was interested in investigating all the branches of his ancestry, passing through some of the largest and oldest families in the New Spain. In 2012, he submitted a request to succeed in the title of count of Gustarredondo,[15] which litigated in Spain asking rights of possession. On the death of Guillermo Tovar, his nephew, Rafael Tovar y López-Portillo, son of Rafael Tovar y Teresa, director of Conaculta and grandson of the president José López-Portillo, requested the subrogation of the rights of his uncle in that title, because he is the firstborn.[16] Guillermo Tovar was a great-grandson of Margarita López-Portillo y Rojas, in turn the sister of the lawyer, governor of the state of Jalisco, novelist, poet, playwright, journalist and language scholar José López Portillo y Rojas. Guillermo Tovar was also the maternal nephew of the writer José Bernardo Couto and maternal great-great-grandson of the writer José Joaquín Pesado.[17]

« There is no sacred art (...) where there has been a liberal reform»

— Guillermo Tovar de Teresa[18]

The publisher Editorial Trama, of Madrid, is formally the publisher of the Chronicle Council of Mexico City. Some of his publications are the following:

• In 2007, he published, together with the Secretariat of Education of the Federal District, the book Ciudad de México: Crónica de sus delegaciones (Mexico City: Chronicle of its delegations). It includes a presentation by Guillermo Tovar de Teresa and, at the end, an article by Carlos Monsiváis, one of the council members, along with Jesús Ramírez Cuevas. The climax is from Salvador Flores.
• In 2009, he published Ciudad de México: Crónica de sus delegaciones (Censorship and revolution: Books prohibited by the Inquisition of Mexico: 1790–1819), by the authorship of Guillermo Tovar de Teresa and the doctor in history and specialist in nineteenth-century Mexico Cristina Gómez Álvarez. This is an edition by the Windward collection.

Museum facade of the Guillermo Tovar de Teresa House. (Valladolid 52, Colonia Roma, Cuauhtémoc City Hall, Mexico City).

• A tribute to him was held in the Auditorium "Jaime Torres Bodet", of the National Museum of Anthropology, conducted by the Mexican government on February 13, 2014, and headed by Emilio Chuayffet Chemor, Secretary of Public Education.[21]
• His brothers decided to create the Guillermo Tovar de Teresa Award, which will recognize, every two years, the trajectory of a Mexican whose work seeks to preserve the heritage of Mexico.[21]
• On August 6, 2014 a tribute was held in his memory at the Museum of Mexico City. The event, which included the inauguration of the bookstore number 24th of the Economic Culture Fund, which will bear its name in its memory, was held in the Museum of Mexico City, and was organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Federal District Government. Among others were: the president of the National Council for Culture and the Arts, Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, the director of the Economic Culture Fund, José Carreño Carlón, the writer Homero Aridjis.[26]
• On December 20, 2018, it was announced that the home of Guillermo Tovar de Teresa would be the Guillermo Tovar de Teresa House in the street Valladolid 52, Colonia Roma Norte), a cultural site where the Soumaya Museum is located, sponsored by the Slim Foundation.[27][28]

He published (some co-authored, but most individually) a total of 39 works in 44 volumes, including:[20]

• Pintura y escultura del Renacimiento en México (Painting and sculpture of the Renaissance in Mexico) (1979)
• Noticias históricas de la Delegación Miguel Hidalgo (Historical news of the Miguel Hidalgo Delegation[14]
• México barroco (Baroque Mexico) (1981)
• Apuntes y fotografías de México a mediados del siglo XIX – Álbum fotográfico mexicano – 1858– fotografías de Désiré Charnay (Notes and photographs of Mexico in the mid-19th century – Mexican photo album – 1858– photographs of Désiré Charnay published by Julio Michaud Publisher: Celanese mexicana) (1981)
• Renacimiento en México: artistas y retablos (Renaissance in Mexico: artists and altarpieces) (1982)
• La ciudad de México y la utopía en el siglo XVI (Mexico City and utopia in the 16th century) (1987)
• El arte de los Lagarto, iluminadores novohispanos de los siglos XVI y XVII (The art of the Lagarto, New Spanish illuminators of the 16th and 17th centuries) (1988)
• Bibliografía novohispana de arte (New Spanish bibliography of art) (two volumes, 1988)
• Miguel Cabrera, pintor de cámara de la reina celestial (Miguel Cabrera, chamber painter of the celestial queen) (1985)[6]
• Gerónimo de Balbás en la Catedral de México (Gerónimo de Balbás in the Cathedral of Mexico) (1990)
• Los escultores mestizos del Barroco novohispano (The mestizo sculptors of the New Spanish Baroque) (1991)
• Pintura y escultura en Nueva España (Painting and sculpture in New Spain (1557–1640)) (four volumes, 1992)
• La ciudad de los palacios (The city of palaces) Publisher: Vuelta, (1990); prologue by Enrique Krauze[29]
• Arte novohispano (New Spanish art) (three volumes, 1992)
• La utopía novohispana del siglo XVI: lo bello, lo verdadero y lo bueno (The 16th-century New Spanish utopia: the beautiful, the true and the good) (1992, in collaboration with Miguel León-Portilla and Silvio Zavala)[20]
• Repertorio de artistas en México: artes plásticas y decorativas (Directory of artists in Mexico: plastic and decorative arts (three volumes, 1995)
• Cartas a Mariano Otero: 1829–1845 (Letters to Mariano Otero: 1829–1845) (1996)
• Catálogo de la colección de ex libris de Guillermo Tovar de Teresa (Collection catalog of ex libris by Guillermo Tovar de Teresa) (2002)
• La ciudad de los palacios: crónica de un patrimonio perdido (The city of palaces: chronicle of a lost heritage)[20]
• La ciudad: un palimpsesto (The city: a palimpsest) (2004)
• El Pegaso o el mundo barroco novohispano en el siglo XVII (The Pegasus or the baroque world of New Spain in the 17th century (1993, reissue 2006)[20]
• Crónica de una familia entre dos mundos: los Ribadeneira en México y España (Chronicle of a family between two worlds: the Ribadeneira in Mexico and Spain) (2009)[20]
• Diccionario de artistas del siglo XX (Dictionary of artists of the twentieth century) (the new edition, which would include artists born before 1955, was being prepared)[9]

• Coedition Council of the Chronicle of Mexico City – National Council for Culture and the Arts – National Institute of Fine Arts – National Conservatory of Music of facsimile of Memories of Mexico, piano scores composed by Luis Hahn with the original lithographys of the covers of the pieces. It includes a compact disc with the interpretation of the pieces (recording in Sala Nezahualcóyotl) by Silvia Navarrete. Introductory text "The lithographs of (M. C.) Rivera in the scores of Luis Hahn", by Guillermo Tovar and Teresa. Proem of María Teresa Franco. Memories of 'an appreciable pianist', or Mexico City seen from the piano, by Ricardo Miranda. Mexico. 2008. ISBN 9786077622130

• Prologue of the book Luis G. Jordá. A Catalan musician in Porfirian Mexico, by Cristian Canton Ferrer (2011)
• Text in the volume of photographs Mexico 1910–1921: an imaginary of the Mexican Revolution . Process. 2010.[30]
• Prologue of the book: Kahlo, G., and Greenwood Peabody, H. (2009). "Two views of the monumental architecture of Mexico." Mexico: Salinas Group.
• "La portada principal de la primitiva Catedral de México" In Collection of studies in tribute to Mariano Fernández Daza, IX Marquis de la Encomienda. Modesto Miguel Rangel Mayoral. Santa Ana de Almendralejo University Center, 2009.
• Presentation of Manual de la gente bien, by Guadalupe Loaeza (1995).
• Compilation of Bordados y bordadores, by Virginia Armella de Aspe (1992).

• Guzmán Urbiola, Xavier (2013). Guillermo Tovar de Teresa: biobibliographic sketch . Mexico: DGE / Equilibrista.[31]

• History of Mexico[3]