The Press as a Way to Recover Artistic Memory: News about Missing or Anonymous Pieces of Silversmithing from Compostela
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https://doi.org/10.3989/ceg.2023.136.10Keywords:
silversmithing, silversmiths, Santiago de Compostela, press, historical news, 19th centuryAbstract
The objective of this paper is to report on a series of unpublished news articles about pieces of Compostela silversmithing from the late 19th and early 20th century, which have mostly been lost. The methodology used to carry out this work included the extraction of hundreds of news stories about this topic from the Newspaper Library of the University of Santiago de Compostela, where more than thirty newspapers from Compostela and Galicia have been used as sources. We believe that the selected articles not only reveal that in Santiago, in the aforementioned chronology, there was a very important generation of silversmiths, forgotten by historiography, but also that sumptuous works of silversmithing were manufactured there. Among them, we highlight the non-clerical pieces, which are not well preserved in Galicia, and especially those commissioned to pay tribute to politicians and important figures of the moment. The news stories show that extraordinary pieces were manufactured in Compostela, including those of classical iconography and in the most varied styles, ranging from neo-Gothic to classical and baroque, as well as Catalan Modernism, which is especially relevant for its originality.
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