El rostro como reliquia: tras las huellas de las máscaras mortuorias de Urquiza
Death masks were used as reference devices for making portraits or collectible pieces, in Argentina by the nineteenth century. In a visual culture crossed by the interest of forming a lay cult that would strengthen the National Identity, many of them were cataloged as relics from patriotic heroes, u...
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Instituto de Historia del Arte - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras - Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs3/index.php/cuadernoshistoarte/article/view/3136 |
| Sumario: | Death masks were used as reference devices for making portraits or collectible pieces, in Argentina by the nineteenth century. In a visual culture crossed by the interest of forming a lay cult that would strengthen the National Identity, many of them were cataloged as relics from patriotic heroes, under the influence of museological speeches of the time. Following Horst Bredekamp's concept of image acts, in the particular case of the death mask of the General Justo José de Urquiza, we see an example of how these objects were no longer passive. Through historic sources, journalistic articles and later relays, our objective will be to reconstruct the origin and history of this piece. This will not only allow us to stop at its documentary and sacred nature, but we will be able to identify two specific moments in which this image activated itself. |
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