Museum_of_the_Americas_(Madrid)

<i>Museo de América</i>

Museo de América

Museum in Madrid, Spain

The Museo de América (English: Museum of America) is a Spanish national museum of arts, archaeology and ethnography in Madrid. Its collections cover the whole of the Americas and range from the Paleolithic period to the present day.

Gallery arranged to recall the Cabinet of Natural History that preceded the museum
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The museum was established by the Spanish State and its initial pieces came from the former collection of American archaeological and ethnographic artifacts from the National Archaeological Museum, Madrid and the Prado Museum, as well as exhibiting a number of unrelated donations, deposits and purchases.[1] It has a major collection of 18th c. casta paintings, one by Miguel Cabrera, who created a set of 16 large format casta paintings. The museum's most famous painting is by Mexican artist, Luis de Mena, of the Virgin of Guadalupe and castas on a single canvas.[2]

History

The institution was founded by a decree of 19 April 1941 and opened in 1944 inside the building housing the National Archaeological Museum.[3] After all the initial holdings were moved to a newly built premises in the Ciudad Universitaria, the building was inaugurated on 12 October 1965.[4] After a series of renovations of the building, which was previously shared with a number of unrelated institutions, the museum was reopened on 12 October 1994, this time exclusively occupying the entire building.[5] As part of preparation for the re-opening, a collecting programme was established, with artifacts from Spain's first Caribbean settlement on Hispaniola (modern Haiti and the Dominican Republic) found by anthropologist Soraya Aracena.[6]

Collection

The permanent exhibit is divided into five major thematic areas:

  • An awareness of the Americas
  • The reality of the Americas
  • Society
  • Religion
  • Communication

See also

References

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    García Sáiz & Jiménez Villalba 2009, p. 84.
  2. [2]
    Sarah Cline, “Guadalupe and the Castas: The Power of a Singular Colonial Mexican Painting.” Mexican Studies/Esudios Mexicanos Vol. 31, Issue 2, Summer 2015, pages 218-46.;Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (2005). Colonial Art in Latin America. New York: PhaidonPress. pp. 66–68.;Bleichmar, Daniela (2012), Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, p. 173;Deans-Smith, Susan (Winter 2005). "Creating the Colonial Subject: Casta Paintings, Collectors, and Critics in Eighteenth-Century Mexico and Spain". Colonial Latin American Review: 169–204.; Elena Isabel Estrada de Gerlero,"The Representation of ‘Heathen Indians’ in Mexican Casta Painting." In New World Orders, edited by Ilona Katzew. NY: Americas Society, 1996, 50.; María Concepción García Sáiz. Las castas mexicanas: un género pictórico americano. Milan: Olivetti, 1989, set III; 66–67; Ilona Katzew, Casta Paintings: Images of Race in Eighteenth-CenturyMexico. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004, 194–195; María Elena Martínez, Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008, dust cover; 257; Cruz Martínez de la Torre and María Paz Cabello Caro. Museo de América, exhibition catalogue. Madrid: IberCaja/Marot, 1997, 130; Jeanette Favrot Peterson, Visualizing Guadalupe: From Black Madonna to Queen of the Americas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014, 256–257; Nina M. Scott, "Measuring Ingredients: Food and Domesticity in Mexican Casta Paintings." Gastronomica 5, no. 11 (2005): 70–79.
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    Krizmanics 2018, p. 40.
  4. [4]
    García Sáiz & Jiménez Villalba 2009, p. 89.
  5. [5]
    García Sáiz & Jiménez Villalba 2009, p. 90.
  6. [6]
    "Calendario-Conversatorio-RD – Jornada Centenaria Ricardo E. Alegría Gallardo". centenarioricardoalegria.com. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  7. [7]
    García Sáiz & Jiménez Villalba 2009, p. 99.
  8. [8]
    García Sáiz & Jiménez Villalba 2009, p. 95.
  9. [9]
    García Sáiz & Jiménez Villalba 2009, p. 112.
  10. [10]
    García Sáiz & Jiménez Villalba 2009, p. 91.
  11. [11]
    "Vasija Nazca". Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte.
  12. [12]
    Sarah Cline, “Guadalupe and the Castas: The Power of a Singular Colonial Mexican Painting.” Mexican Studies/Esudios Mexicanos Vol. 31, Issue 2, Summer 2015, pages 218-46.

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