ANTONIETA RIVAS MERCADO

Antonieta, daughter of the architect Antonio Rivas Castilian Mercado and Cristina, was born in Mexico in 1900 and died in Paris in 1931. Her life, therefore, agrees with the three first decades of our century, was an artist, patron and cultural promoter, who overflowed the molds of the feminine behavior of principles of century XX. She was friend of Jose Vasconcelos, of Federico García Lorca and enamored with the painter Manuel Rodriguez Lozano.

History cultural of Mexico of first half of century XX must partly his wealth and dynamism to select group of women equipped with great qualities, between that it occupies a separate place Antonieta Rivas Mercado, that with its overflowed passion, its nomadic haste and the clarity and brilliance of the ideas has registered in imaginary the popular one, scope of the mythical personages, taken, partly, of the tragic outcome of his life in the cathedral of Notre Dame, in Paris, where the life to her short age decides to take off, by the deception from a love and a country to which it had given much her and this one had cleared her everything.