Grabados flamencos e italianos y su influencia en la pintura de Fuerteventura a finales del siglo XVIII

Abstract

The art conserved in Fuerteventura keeps still many mysteries. Some linen cloths painted at the end of century XVIII show infrequent iconographics subjects in the rest of the canary art, like the inclusion of hells to us in the pictures of animae. But most interesting it is the use of, designed falsified, flemish and italian engravings in century XVI but that was adapted to the mentality of the baroque one, that in an island without special resources nor culture. For that reason we suppose that one is pictures brought from Tenerife, painted in franciscan surroundings and the context of the Spanish catholic Illustration. For that reason, they are sophisticated in iconographic matter but very simple works in the plastic execution. Nevertheless, Fuerteventura they would later become sources of inspiration for made pictures.