Catalogue of the exhibition comprising a selection of the 180 art works (oil paintings on canvas and sculptures in wood and stone, silver and ivory): 40 from the holdings of the MAM and 140 from the private collection of antiquarian and guest curator Rodrigo Rivero Lake (Mexico City 1950). Paintings by modern Mexican artists (Roberto Montenegro, Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, Guillermo Ruiz, Guillermo Meza, Angelina Beloff, Alfredo Zalce, etc,) are displayed along colonial and antique pieces from of Mexico, Peru, Philippines, China, India, Flanders, France, Portugal, and Spain.