Abstract

ZALAMEA, Patricia. Dialoguing with an Ancient World: The Paintings of The Colonial Homes Of Tunja in the Context of a Global Renaissance. Hist. Soc. [online]. 2019, n.36, pp.161-194.  Epub May 17, 2019. ISSN 0121-8417.  https://doi.org/10.15446/hys.n36.73800.

Based on a comparative analysis -between narrative strategies created within the same context; between different contexts in which processes of cultural construction depended on the reformulation of visual culture in the Early Modern period; and between media and devices that produce but also reorganize knowledge- this article proposes a new interpretation of the renowned late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth-century wall paintings in a series of houses in Tunja, as seen within the framework of a Global Renaissance. In this process, concepts that have been used in earlier interpretations, such as originality, identity and exoticism, are reconsidered, thus nuancing the traditional iconographic focus that has predominated in the studies of these paintings. This perspective goes beyond the binary paradigm usually used to interpret the use of printed sources; in this way, the problem of sources and of the relationship usually established between text and image is reconsidered. Finally, these paintings are contextualized in their specific surroundings, but within a global frame, which serves to redistribute the model of center and periphery.

Keywords : (Author) Tunja; Global Renaissance; mural painting; humanism; Juan de Castellanos; Juan de Vargas; Colonial epic.

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