Illustrators of the New World. The Image in the Spanish Scientific Expeditions of the Enlightenment

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ID13072354
AuthorsMiguel Ángel Puig-Samper (0000-0002-6609-819X, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume1
Issue2
Pagesm102-m102
Publication date2012-12-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture & History Digital Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2253-797X • E-ISSN: 2253-797X
PublisherSpanish National Research Council (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3989/chdj.2012.m102
OpenAlexW2091514674
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited10

In the Eighteenth Century, with the boom in the exploration of the Earth, most travellers and explorers had painters and illustrators at their sides who recorded their adventures, even their deaths, the exotic locations they visited, the aborigines, the landscapes or the strange creatures or plants that inhabited them. The presence of artists would increase in these types of exploration companies, sent by Spain, in order to recognise the natural resources and the imperial control of their territories. We take as a starting point Löfling’s expedition, in which naturalist artists seek to comply with the requirements of the Linnaean classification system then, looking at the case of Francisco Requena, who cartographically represented the territory and drew the activities of his own expedition members along the boundaries with the Portuguese empire. Likewise, we analyze expeditions known as “Botanical” to the different viceroyalties, which attempted to transmit the American nature idealized in a few “types” that were drawn and recorded to make the new species and the wealth of the Empire known, until finally arriving at the expedition of Malaspina, in which there is a step towards the depiction of the imperial landscape

Art history · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Image (mathematics · Computer Science · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical Art and Architecture Studies · Historical Studies in Science · History · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence

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