Description

This collection documents the transition from the colonial order to the formation of nation-states in Hispanoamérica. It encompasses milestones such as the Humboldt expeditions and the rise of costumbrismo, integrating works by traveler artists such as Johann Moritz Rugendas, Jean-Baptiste Debret, and Claudio Gay. Through engravings, lithographs, and the first albumen prints by pioneers like Desiré Charnay, a century of tensions between European heritage and the emergence of local identities is reconstructed. This collection is a key testimony of American visual heritage, linking pictorial Romanticism with the scientific and social documentation of a continent in the midst of political and geographical transformation.

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