Necropolis Cristobal Colon
Photographs by Raul L. Rodriguez, A.I.A.
September 25, 2008 - January 25, 2009
Past
Since 1980 Miami architect Raul L. Rodriguez has been photographing Havana’s Necropolis Cristobal Colon, a cemetery featuring some of the finest funerary art in the world. Rodriguez has focused on the cemetery’s mausoleums, which represent a wide range of nineteenth and twentieth century architectural styles.
With its extensive grid of streets and its tombs for everyone from leading industrialists to labor unionists, Necropolis Cristobal Colon is truly a “city of the dead” that reflects the broader patterns of Havana’s development.
The exhibition included approximately forty of Rodriguez’s large color prints.
Organized by HistoryMiami (formerly the Historical Museum of Southern Florida).
