Quiroga. Revista de patrimonio iberoamericano

Interviews Quiroga nº 23

Autores Varios — 2024-10-30

A usted la palabra. Entrevista a Giovanni Poggi, ceramista y colaborador de Wifredo Lam
Ana Belluzo. Conversa sobre a história do Brasil dos viajantes
Graciela Viñuales, arquitecta entre dos mundos
Esther Cruces, España es una potencia archivística

Reseñas Quiroga nº 23

Autores Varios — 2024-10-30

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Dossier Introduction: O Brasil Viajante

Angela Brandão — 2024-10-30

A history made of stories

Ana Maria de Moraes Belluzzo — 2024-10-30

Thirty years ago, O Brasil dos Viajantes was published. It aimed to study images created by European artists and scientists who were in Brazil between the 16th and 19th centuries. At the same time, the works were exhibited in São Paulo and Lisbon. The founding work of travel to Brazil literature, by Hans Staden, deserves to be highlighted. I emphazise the current emergence of contemporary Amerindian art, wich signal a new inclination of original peoples for intercultural dialogue.

From chinese porcelain to the painting of Rio das Mortes, Minas Gerais

Letícia Martins de Andrade — 2024-10-30

The article reflects on the global circulation of artistic objects and models during the 18th and early 19th centuries, proposing the orname tation of Chinese porcelain as a formal reference for painting in the region of Rio das Mortes (Brazil). The porcelains are placed in dialogue with the Five Senses cycle at Casa do Padre Toledo and an analysis is made of their possible interlocution with the visual repertoire of the circle of painters who worked alongside Manoel Victor de Jesus.

Gros de Prangey and J. Houssay: french women travelers in 19th century Brazil

Elaine Dias — 2024-10-30

The theme of travelers is recurrent in the history of Brazilian art, especially with regard to the passage of male artists through Rio de Janeiro. However, some women also crossed the Atlantic to show their artistic productions, participate in exhibitions and teach painting and drawing classes. This article aims to analyze the trajectory of two French women, Emmanuelle Gros de Prangey and Josephine Houssay, little-known artists active in the Brazilian court in the 19th century.

The foreignness of the small sculptures of saints amulets

Joyce Farias — 2024-10-30

This article aims to present the challenges of research into sculptural production attributed to enslaved Africans in Brazil in the 19th century. Considering enslaved Africans as cultural subjects, it is possible to propose other ways of understanding foreignness from this production of sculptures, but recognizing that this condition of “African foreigner” is different from any other type of foreign experience in Brazil.

Aurélio de Figueiredo, travel and decentralization of collections

Moema Alves — 2024-10-30

The turn of the 19th century into the 20th, in Brazil, was a moment of renewal caused by the federalism implemented by the republican regime. In this context, artists began to invest in traveling to the most diverse regions of the country, also promoting the circulation of their works. We will, based on Aurélio de Figueiredo's travels, get closer to this scenario and realize how decisive the movement of artists was in establishing museums and cultural institutions in the most diverse parts of the country.

1924-2024 Brazil´s discovery voyage, one hundred years later

Angela Brandão — 2024-10-30

This text reviews some primary sources and part of historiography dedicated to narrating and understanding the trip taken by a representative group of the Brazilian avant-garde, in 1924, through the historic cities of Minas Gerais, Brazil. We intend to emphasize that this excursion has been partly carried out on passenger trains that, at that period, still circulated through Brazil. Beyond a simple vehicle, trains produced a peculiar way of observing these places marked by the past.

Gilberto Freyre and orientalisms

Cássio Fernandes — 2024-10-30

In 1951-52, the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre traveled through “Portuguese lands” between Europe, Africa and Asia. The trip was translated into several writings, addressing a set of problems arising from the observation of the paths opened by the circulation of men and products through vast territories between Africa and the East, which landed on the coasts of Portuguese America. During the trip, he looked for oriental values absorbed by the Portuguese and incorporated into Brazilian culture.

Museums and intangible heritage of the Spain-Portugal border

Irene Sánchez Izquierdo — 2024-10-30

This work aims to deepen in the knowledge of the numerous museums and interpretation centres on the Spanish-Portuguese border. We use various tools to create a cultural cartography that allows us to visualise the current complex museological panorama of the border area, contributing to its valorisation. Finally, we propose six heritage-themed axes, in which museums are articulated to create possible cross-border cultural itineraries.

The Franciscan grisailles in Majorca and Minorca and their connection to New Spain

Margarita Novo Malvárez — 2024-10-30

The Franciscan convents in Majorca and Minorca were adorned with grisaille murals in the 17^th and 18^th centuries. The paintings depict local devotional settings, as well as the inception of evangelising missions in the New World and the ‘tornaviaje’, or return voyage, of religious missionaries. The reappearance of these black and white paintings in island convents in the early modern period is analysed within the context of Spanish and American missionary tradition.

The industrial heritage of Almeria. Social perception for tourism use

Almudena García-Ruiz — 2024-10-30

Industrial heritage shows the economic development in the past and contributes as a tourist resource in the present and future of our cities. The study is carried out by a survey about industrial heritage of Almeria and its implication in the tourism sector, which confirms that the existing diversity in this territory is considered a key element in the heritage and cultural development of the province that requires intervention and enhancement.

Sound architecture of the six organs of the Royal Basilica of Mafra

Marco Brescia — 2024-10-30

The visual and sound symmetry of the Iberian organ will culminate in the set of sextuple organs in the Royal Basilica of the Palace of Mafra, erected by the organ-makers António Xavier Machado e Cerveira and Joaquín Antonio Pérez Fontanes between 1792 and 1807. The Mafra poly-organistic repertoire was ruled by liturgical directories that reserved a greater sound magnitude for a greater degree of solemnity, constituting one of the main elements of the ritual apparatus consecrating royal power.

Dissident bodies and voices: memory of the dictatorship in Pinturas de guerra

Marie-Caroline Leroux — 2024-10-30

In the graphic novel Pinturas de guerra, Á. De la Calle examines the turbulent decades of the 1960s and 1970s, a period of intense contribution to political struggles by Latin American neoavant-garde artists. The article sets out to study the articulation of history and fiction in a work which, beyond its assumed didactic ambitions, manages to make visible the dissident bodies and voices of the victims of state terrorism, turning the traumas of the characters into narrative material.

Late Modern Period Masonry bridges in Granada

Antonio Burgos Núñez — 2024-10-30

In the late modern period, a representative group of more than fifty factory bridges were created in Granada. They have a great value for their technical and structural diversity and for their own personality as artistic creations based on imaginative chromatic combinations. Their existence has given rise to other related artistic manifestations, increasing their interest as cultural goods. It is a valuable heritage that is currently not recognised.

Presentación Dossier: De la retórica visual a la publicidad

Reyes Escalera Pérez — 2024-10-30

En octubre de 2023 tuvo lugar en Alcañiz (Teruel) el XIV Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Emblemática con el título Humanismo y retórica visual. En este dossier hemos retomado este último concepto, “Retórica visual” que declara con claridad, desde nuestro punto de vista, cómo la imagen y la palabra se imbrican en forma de discursos para transmitir enseñanzas y consejos, trasladar contenidos morales o afianzar valores derivados del poder. Como muy bien apunta Rafael García Mahíques, si bien la retórica era, en la antigüedad, una “disciplina propia del lenguaje verbal como modo de articular la elocuencia”, el arte se moduló, hasta la llegada de la Modernidad, “en función de dicha elocuencia o persuasión en la comunicación cultural”. Este discurso verbo-visual es el empleado por la publicidad, que fija sus estrategias para crear una imagen de marca que le permita no sólo mostrar un producto, sino despertar la atención del público e incentivar su compra…

The triumph as visual rhetoric. The emblematic series patientiae triumphus

Rafael García Mahíques — 2024-10-30

With the title Patientiae Triumphus [The Triumph of Patience], the Dutch engraver Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert composed a series of eight prints inspired by the designs of Maarten van Heemskerck. The collection is composed following the style of Petrarch’s Trionfi. The first plate in the series is The Triumph of Patience, and the remaining engravings utilize biblical characters as exempla of this virtue: Isaac, Joseph, David, Job, Tobias, Saint Stephen and finally, Christ. Just like emblems, each one of the engravings features a Latin epigram.

The use of exempla in Franz Von Retz’s defensorium (15th century) on the virginity of Mary

Fernando Moreno Cuadro — 2024-10-30

In the extensive series of works dealing with the virginity of Mary from the first centuries of Christianity onwards, one of the finest examples from the Middle Ages is the Defensorium inviolatae virginitatis Mariae, written by the Dominican friar Franz von Retz around 1420.

It was one of the last works designed to provide a repertoire of exempla to support the points when preaching to poorly educated congregations, giving exempla from nature, ancient myths and classical gods, taken from The Moralized Ovid, along with other themes from antiquity.

Emblematic in the margin: its variations in the second half of the 16th century

María Josefa Cuesta García de Leonardo — 2024-10-30

In this article I have tried to make an approach to creations at the beginning of the emblematic genre in Spain, which start from the same principles of said genre, linking image and text, but which have a very sui generis configuration and outside the norms.

Instruendo delecta: alciato in the approvals of peruvian funerals

Silvia Cazalla Canto — 2024-10-30

The festive report for the funeral of Feliciana de San Ignacio was published in 1733 by fr. Álvaro Gaspar Enríquez, whose central core is the prayer preached by Br. José del Castillo. The text is a defense of the virtues of the deceased using various symbols. In the approvals the speaker himself is praised with the same resource. The censors presented themselves as knowledgeable scholars of symbolic culture and did not resist their intervention being purely literary.

Art enters the campaign. Visual culture, caricature and elections in the USA

José Javier Azanza López — 2024-10-30

In the second half of the 19th Century and the first decades of the 20th, illustrated magazines made political caricatures an effective instrument in US presidential campaigns and elections, using images easily identifiable by the public inspired by the Bible, Literature, Universal History, Mythology and Art. An approach to this last category will allow us to identify pictorial models and assess the role of visual culture in American society of the time.

The Mots et Devises trade card series or the commercial use of the emblematic tradition

José Julio García Arranz — 2024-10-30

During the decades of transition between the 19th and 20th century, the A. Billon printing house was quite active in Paris. This work focuses on a trading card collection printed in its presses, generically coined Mots et devises. The collection was intended to promote food products, faithfully maintaining the triplex structure of the ancient traditional literary emblems derived from the first edition of Andrea Alciato’s Emblemata (1531).

Gallicromos: visual references in the cromos of the first album of Gallina Blanca (1945)

Sonia Ríos-Moyano — 2024-10-30

Stickers have been a popular resource in the entertainment field since the industrial revolution. Thanks to the development of the printing industry and its lowered price, they achieved great popularity and diffusion during the 20th century. The text analyzes and identifies the origin and visual references in the world of art, illustration and painting, which served as a source for the “gallicromos”, which were col- lectible trading cards offered by the Gallina Blanca brand (Barcelona, 1945). The educational and didactic nature of these small prints is also highlighted.

The diptych of the death of Baldung Grien: where is, oh death! Your victory?

Rafael Zafra Molina — 2024-10-30

This article aims to interpret Hans Baldung Grien’s diptych formed by the paintings known as The Harmony or The Three Graces and The Ages and Death (1541-1544), preserved in the Prado Museum, on the hypothesis that the three central female characters in both are really a representation of the Fates. Under this perspective, whole The diptych of death and each part, The birth of death and The death of death, it is proposed to rename

Visual rhetoric and image of power in the era of the shared image

Luis Vives-Ferrándiz Sánchez — 2024-10-30

The aim of the present paper is to study Internet memes as descendants of modern emblems. The paper highlights their differences but also their similarities as both combine images and texts. The paper analyses visual rhetoric resources such as puns to produce visual hieroglyphs in the modern era and in contemporary visual culture. Specifically, the rhetorical games of images on social networks of two figures of contemporary presidents are analyzed: Pedro Sánchez and Giorgia Meloni.

The affliction of Mary and the dream of St Joseph: a newly discovered painting by Miguel Cabrera

José Ignacio Mayorga Chamorro — 2024-10-30

An unpublished canvas signed by Miguel Cabrera in 1766 has been discovered in a private collection in Malaga. It depicts The Affliction of Mary and the Dream of Saint Joseph, so it must have been part of one of the author's series on the life of the Virgin. As it was usual in its context, the image was composed of various visual references (previous works, engravings, tracings and stencils), which were combined and re-signified to create a new composition.

The fall of Troy in art and visual culture

Inmaculada Rodríguez Moya — 2024-10-30

The destruction of the legendary city of Troy constituted, thanks to Virgil's account in the Aeneid, one of the fundamentalscenes in the visual imaginary of Western culture from the moment it was made. Virgil's story also had importantconsequences for emblematic literature and European art. This text focuses on the scene of the burning and destruction ofthe city of Troy, a subject that is fascinating because of the implications it later had on ephemeral art and the Renaissanceand Baroque festival.