Publication:
El impacto de los pliegos de tesis sobre el arte colonial: Los pliegos de la Casa Pfeffel

Loading...
Thumbnail Image

Publication date

Reading date

Event date

Start date of the public exhibition period

End date of the public exhibition period

Authors

Ojeda di Ninno, Almerindo

Advisors

Authors of photography

Person who provides the photography

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

Ediciones Universidad Autónoma de Chile / Enredars-Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Export

Research Projects

Organizational Units

Journal Issue

Abstract

Los pliegos de tesis fueron grabados de gran formato creados, muchas veces a la mediatinta, con ocasión de sustentaciones de tesis en universidades centroeuropeas de la primera edad moderna. Los pliegos de tesis alcanzaron su apogeo en Augsburgo en el siglo XVIII. Muchas casas editoras publicaron pliegos de tesis en este periodo, destacando entre ellas la Casa Pfeffel. Los pliegos de tesis de la Casa Pfeffel tuvieron un impacto notable sobre el arte colonial. Así, podemos documentar una decena de pinturas quiteñas y novohispanas que derivan claramente de ellos. Cabe notar que estas pinturas no fueron simples traducciones del lenguaje gráfico de los pliegos al lenguaje pictórico, sino interesantes variantes de los pliegos que las inspiraron. Un ejemplo particularmente instructivo de ello es el Regina Angelorum de Miguel Cabrera que se encuentra hoy en la Catedral Metropolitana de Ciudad de México.
Thesis sheets were large format prints created, often as mezzotints, on occasion of dissertation defenses celebrated at universities of Central Europe during the Early Modern age. Thesis sheets reached their zenith in Augsburg in the 18th century. Many publishing houses produced thesis sheets then. Worthy of note among them was the Pfeffel publishing house. The thesis sheets issued by the Pfeffel presses had a remarkable impact on Spanish Colonial Art. Thus, we can document about ten paintings, created in Quito and Mexico, that clearly derive from them. It should be noted that these paintings were no mere translations from the graphic language of thesis sheets to the pictorial language, but rather interesting variants of the thesis sheets that inspired them. A particularly instructive example of this is Miguel Cabrera’s Regina Angelorum found today in the Mexico City Cathedral.

Doctoral program

Related publication

Research projects

Description

Bibliographic reference

Photography rights