Una casa para la memoria de las artes. La casa de Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez

Abstract

Cean Bermudez has often been presented as a scholar who shut himself away in his Madrid home in the later years of his life, an image he himself helped to create through his own words. In this paper we examine how disappointment and weariness were emotions routinely expressed by the intellectuals of the early 19th century, and reveal the background between appearance and reality in Cean’s office, a place where he conducted vitally important study into and dissemination of Spanish art history.