The exhibition can be visited at the National Historical Museum starting tomorrow, from Wednesday to Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., with free admission.
He National historical museum Starting tomorrow, he presents an exhibition with paintings from his collection where you can see some of the central events in Argentine history, such as the Open Cabildo of May 22 by Pedro Subercaseaux, The Capitulation of Salta, 1813 by Augusto Ballerini, La Revista de Rancagua by Juan Manuel de Blanes and the paintings by Cándido López on the War of the Triple Alliance.
“Painters of History” is the title of the exhibition that brings together some of the most important artists from the Museum’s collection, whose scenes are part of the national imagination and have been captured in the last decades of the 19th century when the country was consolidating, detailed from the museum in a statement.
Some painters acted on their own initiative, with the aim of selling their works, and others did so at the request of the State: even the Historical Museum itself commissioned paintings that would later become very well known.
“Many of these images are the ones we see when looking for information about fundamental events in Argentine history in school books or on the internet, and although they were created several years after the events they describe or recreate, they remained strongly associated with them in the imagination. collective”, point out from the institution.
Among the works that will be exhibited is the famous “The Battle of Chacabuco” by the Chilean artist Peter Subercaseaux“The last moments of Manuel Dorrego” that Fausto Eliseo Coppiniborn in Italy and based in Argentina, he painted in 1902 and “Baile de negros. Carnaval en la época de Rosas”, by the Uruguayan painter Pedro Figarian oil on cardboard, in which a candombe scene is recreated in a Buenos Aires carnival.
“The idea of making History Painters has to do with continuing to rebuild the historical script of this Museum, a task that began last year with Tiempo de Revolución and that will continue with the exhibition that covers the period from 1820 to 1852. We want to tell what happened between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, when there was an operation to create images of the Argentine past and one of those who intervened in that creation was precisely this Museum through its first director, Adolfo Carranza, who commissioned some of these images that later became very famous because many of them appear on banknotes or in school textbooks,” said Gabriel Di Meglio, director of the MHN.
The exhibition “Painters of history” can be visited at the National Historical Museum (Defensa 1600, CABA) starting tomorrow, from Wednesday to Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., with free admission.
Source: Ambito
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