Quintana: revista do Departamento de Historia da Arte

EDITORIAL

Alfredo Vigo Trasancos — 2023-12-27

"ROME IS FOUND WHERE IT IS STUDIED". TRAVELS, CHANGES AND ARTISTIC EXCHANGES IN THE MODERN AGE

Beatriz Blasco Esquivias — 2023-04-25

Bacon's empiricism and Descartes' desire for experimentation encouraged travel during the Modern Age, either as a form of scientific and artistic knowledge encouraged by the development of optical instruments or as part of the process of learning and consolidation of artists. Despite the inconvenience of transport, the precariousness of road networks and the dangers of travel, men and women often left their place of origin in search of a job opportunity or because of it, transferring from one place to other experiences that enriched both bearers and receivers alike. In addition to some knowledge journeys, this article analyses the impact that the presence of foreign artists had on the Spanish court. Under the Bourbons, this influx became a strategy to annul the memory of the Habsburgs and bring about a change in taste that would lead to the Enlightenment.

GLIMPSING THE ROMANESQUE CATHEDRAL OF GIRONA: EARLY RECEPTION OF STAINED-GLASS WORKSHOPS IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA

Gerardo Boto Varela — 2023-09-27

In 2019, as a result of the restoration of the Renaissance altarpiece by Antoni Coll installed in the Corpus Christi chapel, once dedicated to Saint Martin and Saint Francis, in the cathedral of Santa Maria de Girona, an exceptional stained-glass window was found. The painstaking restoration carried out in 2020 and 2021 has brought back light to some pieces of extraordinary value that had been obliterated by masking. This stained-glass window is the result of a reuse of early Gothic pieces combined with others from the first generation of International Gothic, presumably carried out around 1400. The earliest glass in this window, which can be dated to the first quarter of the 13th century, is therefore contemporary with the four early stained-glass windows in the monastery of Las Huelgas (Burgos). Both windows are the result of the establishment and organization of glassmakers' workshops from different French domains. The arrival of Aquitanian and Picardic craftsmen is superimposed on the pre-existence of glassmakers somewhere in Catalonia, around 1200 or a little earlier, if we accept the attribution to that territory of a stained-glass window conserved in the Worcester Art Museum.

INTERIOR DESIGN IN BUENOS AIRES 1880-1930. CONSUMPTION PATTERNS OF EUROPEAN FURNITURE AND ITS COMMERCIAL AGENTS

Ana María Fernández García — 2023-06-27

This paper aims to explain the consumption of domestic furniture in the Argentine capital in the period known as the Belle Époque (1880-1930), a time of massive arrival of European immigrants and spectacular takeoff of the country's economy. Two trends can be identified in the acquisition of home furnishings: the French style, linked to the most privileged classes, and the British, widespread among the middle classes. In addition, since 1910, these two decorative tendencies coexisted with some Argentine thinkers' neocolonial claim on an intellectual level. Finally, it has identified the city's leading commercial houses throughout those consumption patterns, which explain the singularity of a multicultural, postcolonial society and the builder of a new identity as a nation.

PEDRO JALOPA ("ca." 1386/1391-1443): NEW MILESTONES OF AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE COURSE

Javier Ibáñez Fernández — 2023-07-11

Researches undertaken recently have allowed us to attribute to Pedro Jalopa a leading role in the renovation of Gothic architecture in the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the 14^thand the beginning of the 15^th century.

Now, new archive documents, the careful review of the ones already known and, ultimately, the information provided by some of the buildings in which he worked, allow us to cast light on his eventful life course, as on his professional profile.

"TANTO MONTA CORTAR COMO DESATAR". ON THE ORIGIN AND END OF JUAN GUAS

Raúl Romero Medina — 2023-04-25

Juan Guas was one of the most important personalities of European artistic creation of the second half of the fifteenth century. This essay deals with the origin of this master, who was born in León, France, without the possibility of error in Lyon for the Castilians of the time and reflects on the end of his existence through a space of memory such as that of the funerary chapel that he designed in the church of San Justo y Pastor of Toledo. One of the most characteristic elements of this Toledan chapel is the presence of the intersecting jarjas of its vaulted space which, although they occurred from the end of the 14th century in Europe as a whole, are observed in the Rhone area of Lyon and were solutions brought to the Iberian Peninsula by masters such as Pierre Jalopa or Hanequin Coeman from Brussels. Under the orders of this last master, Juan Guas appears documented for the first time, in 1452, collaborating with his father, Pedro Guas, in the sculptural work of the Puerta de los Leones of the Cathedral of Toledo.

FROM THE ASOCIACIÓN DE JÓVENES COMPOSITORES DE LA ARGENTINA TO THE ASOCIACIÓN GALEGA DE COMPOSITORES. ATLANTIC CONNECTIONS THROUGH THE FIGURE OF CARLOS LÓPEZ GARCÍA-PICOS

Javier Ares Espiño — 2023-04-25

Carlos López García-Picos was a member of the “Asociación de Jóvenes Compositores de la Argentina” and, later, after his return to Spain in 1984, he participated in the founding of the “Asociación Galega de Compositores” and the “Confederación Española de Asociaciones de Compositores Sinfónicos”. In this article I explain the connection between all these entities using the figure of the Galician-Argentine composer as the backbone. The celebration in Valencia in 1992 of the “I Congreso Iberoamericano de Compositores” will also allow us to establish links through composers such as Raúl Schemper, thus connecting various movements of musical associations on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

THE AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE OF SOUND IN SPACE. A PHILOSOPHICAL CONTRAST BETWEEN ARCHITECTURAL SPACE AND SOUND SPACE

Sofía Balbontín — 2023-04-28

This article aims to discuss the notion of sound-space based on the aesthetic experience of sound in space, observing the audible principles that build spaces shaped only by sound perception. Two types of sound-spaces are recognized; the invisible spaces built by sound (space-of-sound) and the sound emitted by physical space (sound-of-space). In both cases, auditory perception is the cognitive access to spatial information, however, the first one is recognized from acousmatic listening, while the second one is recognized through the process of echolocation. To address this process, a philosophical contrast is established between architectural-space and sound-space, as well as in the relations that appear between the space-of-sound and the sound-of-space. To approach this discussion, the concepts of “smooth” and “striated” proposed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in their book A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, are taken as basis. From this analysis arises that sound-space not only enhances the aesthetics of listening as a powerful creative tool, but also strikes the disciplinary foundations of architecture, towards incorporating “perception” as a material for the production of spatialities.

THE COUNCIL OF TRENT AND THE ALTARPIECE OF THE ST. PETER’S CHAPEL IN THE CATHEDRAL OF MALLORCA

Maria del Mar Escalas Martín — 2023-11-10

This article presents an approach to the altarpiece that existed inside the Holy Sacrament Chapel in the Cathedral of Mallorca during the Early Modern period. The presence of this piece in the St. Peter’s Chapel has to be directly related to the great relevance that the reserve of the Blessed Sacrament gained as a consequence of the celebration of the Council of Trent. By consulting unpublished documentation in archives, it has been possible to establish and specify some milestones related to the execution of an altarpiece dedicated to Saint Peter during the 16th and 17th centuries. In addition to the distinction of two phases of execution, it has been possible to provide a probable hypothesis about its authorship.

HABITABILITY, CINEMA AND CONFINEMENT. THE DOMESTIC AS AUDIOVISUAL SUPPORT

Alberto E. García-Moreno — 2023-04-25

This paper explores the capacity of cinematographic language as a tool for the study of architectural space within a given social, cultural and historical context. Specifically, the health crisis caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the resulting situations of isolation and confinement, have given rise to an intense reflection on domestic habitability and the modes of perception that its users have projected on housing as a space of forced confinement. A space-time-sensory experimentation is presented through cinematographic language, proposed to young architects and audiovisual artists, in which the influence of the domestic on human behavior has been investigated, analyzed both from the reality of its intensive daily use as from the different relations between the personal interior and the denied exterior. Using as a methodology the critical analysis of the production of different filmmakers and their ways of undertaking cinematographic practice, different audiovisual interpretations of the house, its objects, its inhabitants, its elements of relationship with the outside and its particular concept of transparency have been materialized. The resulting stories have manifested, from the phenomenological, singular contemporary ways of living, confirming the suitability of cinematographic language as an instrument to narrate architectural experiences.

MILAGROS [MILI] PORTA (1918-1971): A MUSIC EDUCATIONIST FROM A CORUÑA AHEAD OF HER TIME

María del Carmen Lorenzo Vizcaíno — 2023-12-17

Milagros (Mili) Porta Siso (1918-1971) was a woman ahead of her time in all the facets of her short but intense musical life. From her beginnings in A Coruña she was versatile, covering almost all fields of music. She began as a member of various choirs, later becoming a pianist accompanying lyric singers, and in 1934, when she was only sixteen years old, she became the leader of a professional symphony orchestra. Although she died at the age of 53, she became a professor of music theory at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid and a very active figure in the Galician community in the capital, where she directed the choir Anaquiños d'a Terra of the Galician Centro Gallego de Madrid. She also worked as a music critic for La Voz de Galicia, a member of the jury in musical competitions for the recently created TVE, a participant in RNE's South American broadcasts, a creator of musical pedagogy methods and a composer. All this work was recognised in numerous tributes and with the award in 1952 of Gran Cruz de Alfonso X El Sabio.

THE ATLAS AS A SCIENCE OF IMAGES: ART HISTORY AND CULTURAL HISTORY IN GERHARD RICHTER AND ABY WARBURG

Miguel Mesquita Duarte — 2023-12-17

While acknowledging their historical and thematic differences, this article seeks to draw parallels between Gerhard Richter’s Atlas (1962–2013) and Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas (1924–29). The article commences by exploring the broader relationship between archives, memory, and images, subsequently delving into the analysis of three key aspects: the concept of montage-knowledge as the basis for constructing a history without text; the significance of auto(biographical) and fictional components in the projects of both authors; and the central role played by the processes of inscription, transformation and survival of images in shaping cultural memory. Here, cultural memory is comprehended as a conglomeration of knowledge and objects, serving as an ethical-scientific framework for constructing and symbolically interpreting historical knowledge. By shedding light on the comparative potential between Richter and Warburg, a topic scarcely covered in existing specialized literature (aside from sporadic references in Buchloh's 1999 text on the anomic archive), the article aims to contribute to an epistemological revaluation of some of the most relevant meanings, valences and concepts permeating the atlases of these two influential German “historian-artists”.

SUFFERING AND GRATEFUL. AN APPROACH TO SAILOR PIETY IN CONTEMPORARY ASTURIAN PLASTIC

Laura Mier Valerón — 2023-11-20

This paper aims to offer a complete vision through the themes and iconographic discourses that have depicted the death on Asturian maritime culture to the contemporary artistic image. Through different formulas, this imaginary includes suffering and gratitude as main reactions to the danger and vulnerability implicit in the life of these communities. Moreover, these responses have motivated the development of a particular devotion, which is expressed in certain practices and traditions, while they have also articulated the thread that can be identified throughout the artistic works.

16TH-CENTURY SEVILLIAN ALCAICERÍAS. URBAN STUDY AND GRAPHIC RESTITUTION

María Núñez-González — 2023-11-15

The subject of this paper is the urban study of alcaicerías, important commercial areas in sixteenth-century Seville, a moment of maximum economic and cultural splendor. An architectural and typological analysis based on historical documents has been developed. In addition, hypothetical plans of the areas and the buildings at some of the most important trading sites such as Las Gradas and the alcaicerías of Santa María la Mayor and San Salvador have been made. This analysis includes surfaces, purposes, heights and density of the buildings.

IMAGES TO INSTRUCTION: THE CAPITALS OF THE ANNUNCIATION AND NATIVITY IN THE CONVENTUAL CHURCH OF SANTO DOMINGO DE PONTEVEDRA

Brianda Otero Moreira — 2023-11-25

Los restos que se conservan de la singular cabecera de la iglesia conventual dominica de Pontevedra y su azarosa historia han despertado siempre un gran interés en el seno de la comunidad científica gallega. Sin embargo, en ocasiones esta atención ha dejado de lado el ambicioso programa figurativo que se despliega a lo largo de casi setenta capiteles. Estacontribución tiene como propósito ofrecer un análisis detenido de las imágenes del ciclo religioso que decora parte de la capilla mayor, con especial atención a las escenas de la Anunciación y Virgen y el Niño.

EDUARDO REY VILLAVERDE (m. 1925) AND SANTIAGO REY MONTERO (m. 1941): UNPUBLISHED NEWS AND PIECES OF TWO IMPORTANT SILVERSMITHINGS FROM COMPOSTELA FORGOTTEN BY THE HISTORIOGRAPHY

Ana Pérez Varela — 2023-09-30

The purpose of this paper is to make known a series of unpublished news about Eduardo Rey Villaverde and his son Santiago Rey Montero, two silversmiths who, despite having been barely mentioned in the studies, we believe they had a great importance in the artistic panorama of their epoch. The methodology of our study has been the work in archives, to offer a documentary context in which to frame the silversmiths, and demonstrate their interest through the valuation, variety and importance of their commissions, as well as the mentions to their fame in the Compostela of their time. We have also managed to reconstruct their family tree, locate his workrooms, and make known a series of pieces unpublished so far.

AUTEUR CINEMA IN HOLLYWOOD: ABOUT THE WRONG MAN (HITCHCOCK, 1956)

Pedro Poyato Sánchez — 2023-11-20

Auteur cinema, together with film noir, is a most challenging genre within the classic paradigm. And at the forefront of this cinema there is Alfred Hitchcock, one of the directors who has contravened the classic Hollywood rules with his works. The aim of this study is the analysis of one of those films, The Wrong Man, 1956, which Hitchcock, wading monetary hindrances, made for Warner, upon the real story of a man mistakenly identified as a thief. Thus, by means of dissecting the writing terms and procedures, both at a narrative and stylistic level, this analysis reflects on the manifestation of the Hitchcockian authorship.

THE ITALIAN AND CATALAN CONNECTIONS IN GALICIAN ARCHITECTURE AT THE END OF THE CENTURY: RECEPTION OF ALDO ROSSI (1973-1997)

Santiago Rodríguez Caramés — 2023-09-30

In the early 70s, the peripheral position of Galician architecture started to change thanks to two factors: 1) the creation of COAG and ETSAC, and 2) the emergence of new generations of young architects that yearned for freedom in late Francoist Spain. The connections that developed between Galician architects –mainly those who had studied in Barcelona– and the Catalan and Italian schools were essential in the consolidation of this process. Tarragó, Martí, and Rossi played a major role in the renovation of Galician architecture. Throughout the 70s, they organized exhibitions, seminars, and conferences that reinforced these connections and made them live on in subsequent decades. Events like the SIAC in 1976 have proven to be essential milestones in the historical development of recent Galician architecture and emerge as significant landmarks when a critical and historiographical gaze is cast on this time period. The connections with these schools resulted in 1) the possibility to access a critical theoretical corpus on architecture, urbanism, and territory, and 2) a new status for many Galician architects who would become well-respected abroad. Furthermore, this influence is also visible in the actual constructions these architects built, of which several examples will be analysed.

ART AND CITY. AN INTEGRAL AND INTEGRATING VISION OF THE GALICIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE. ANA E. GOY DIZ (1966-2022)

Juan Manuel Monterroso Montero — 2023-12-04

SITUACION DE LOS CASCOS ANTIGUOS GALLEGOS: INTERVENCIONES EN LOS ÚLTIMOS AÑOS

Ana Goy Diz — 2023-12-04

RANIERO FERNÁNDEZ. O ARQUIVO

Manuel Sendón — 2023-10-19

"El figurinismo español a escena. Entre la tradición y la vanguardia". Isabel Alba Nieva (Prólogo de Carmen González-Román). Libargo. Colección Artes&Estudio, Granada, 2022. 302 págs. ISBN 978-84-124599-0-0

José Luis Plaza Chillón — 2023-09-02

"Francisco Castro: entrevías del racionalismo". Francisco José Castro Nieto. Autor, Vigo, 2022. 532 págs. ISBN 978-84-09-40538-1

José Manuel García Iglesias — 2023-09-10

"Iconografía e iconología. Introducción al significado de la obra artística". Fernando Moreno Cuadro. UCO Press-Editorial Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, 2022. 1000 págs. ISBN 978-84-9927-696-0

José Manuel García Iglesias — 2023-09-10

"Efímero y virtual: Rescates digitales de artefactos provisionales". Victoria Soto Caba y Mercedes Simal López (Eds.). Editorial Universidad de Jaén (Artes y Humanidades. Estudios de Historia del arte; 8), Jaén, 2022. 376 págs. ISBN 978-84-9159-471-0

Ana Esther Santamaría Fernández — 2023-06-26

"Pasiones ocultas, amores fatales. Imágenes del deseo en la cultura contemporánea". Esperanza Guillén Marcos (Ed.). Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2021. 466 págs. ISBN 978-84-338-6915-9

Clara Solbes Borja — 2023-06-26

BUILT AND THOUGHT: EUROPEAN AND TRANSATLANTIC CORRESPONDENCE IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF ARCHITECTURE

Santiago Rodríguez-Caramés — 2023-09-21

Erratum to “SCIENCE AND POPULAR CULTURE IN THE SURREALIST IMAGERY. CONFLUENCES BETWEEN SURREALISM AND SCIENCE FICTION” ["Quintana", n. 21 (2022). https://doi.org/10.15304/quintana.21.7588]

Javier Mañero Rodicio — 2023-04-25

Erratum to “THE LOST GROVE. THE FOREST AND THE TREE IN CONTEMPORARY BASQUE AND GALICIAN CINEMA” ["Quintana", n. 21 (2022).https://doi.org/10.15304/quintana.21.7955]

Imanol Zumalde — 2023-04-25