"Bajo el bello cielo de Chile". Alessandro Ciccarelli, primer director de la Academia de Pintura en Santiago (siglo XIX).
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Universidad de La Laguna
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- Fernández Valle, María de los Ángeles (ed. lit.)
- López Calderón, Carme (ed. lit.)
- Rodríguez Moya, Inmaculada (ed. lit.)
Publisher: Enredars ; Andavira
ISBN: 978-84-121445-3-6
Year of publication: 2019
Pages: 393-404
Congress: Simposio Internacional de Jóvenes Investigadores del Barroco Iberoamericano (3. 2017. Sevilla)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
On August 8th, 1849 in front of an enthusiastic audience, the first Chilean Painting Academy opened up its doors with the famous Speech articulated by the Italian painter Alessandro Ciccarelli. In this text we will focus on his theoretical contribution to the birth of a true consciousness surrounding artistic education in Chilean society of the 19th century. Our analysis extends beyond his qualities as a painter and the unfair comparison made between Ciccarelli and the French Monvoisin, in which the Neapolitan is always defeated. What Ciccarelli wished to transmit to Chilean arts was what he had learned in the city of Rome (as researched by J. J. Winckelmann, A. R. Mengs, and V. Camuccini); it was not about a pictorial style, but a learning method for the Arts based on constant drawing exercises.