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title: "Facultad de Medicina — Fondo Moderno"
description: "Facultad de Medicina by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and Francisco Eppens Helguera, Mexico City."
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# Facultad de Medicina

Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and Francisco Eppens Helguera · [Mexico City](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/cities/mexico-city)

The building's west facade carries La vida, la muerte, el mestizaje y los cuatro elementos, a monumental glazed-ceramic mural by Francisco Eppens Helguera completed in the early 1950s. Life, death, the four elements and the idea of mestizaje are drawn together inside a serpent biting its own tail, binding the school's medical subject to pre-Columbian cosmology rather than illustrating anatomy directly.