Typology of the Artistic Ironwork and Door in Cuzco, Arequipa, La Antigua and Cartagena de Indias as a Symbol of Social Status During the Colonial Period

 

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Egilea: Castro Madriz, José María
Formatua: artículo original
Egoera:Versión publicada
Argitaratze data:2021
Deskribapena:This academic paper is the result of field research carried out during the years 2017 and 2018 in the cities of La Antigua, Cartagena de Indias, Cuzco and Arequipa. Its objective is to analyze from a typological and iconographic perspective the doors decorated with artistic ironworks of Spanish-Moorish influence, as well as the subsequent disconnection between the strictly functional and the original iconic value. The fundamental problem of analysis is the relation between production and symbolic value of ironworks are identified as objects of utilitarian art, as material testimonies of the social, political and economic framework of colonial society between the c. XVI and early c. XIX. The influence of organized and officialized guilds in blacksmithing in the style and technical development of colonial ironworks is also highlighted. Through the photographic record made in the four cities, the iconographic analysis and the consultation of historical written sources; an explanatory proposal is presented as a main conclusion by which these functional-aesthetic objects lost meaning of status associated with dominant classes to be chosen much later by criteria of taste and tradition by subaltern classes.
Herria:Portal de Revistas UCR
Erakundea:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Hizkuntza:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/47313
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/humanidades/article/view/47313
Gako-hitza:colonialism
typology
metallurgy
Latin America
social systems
colonialismo
tipología
metalurgia
América Latina
sistema social