Caleseros - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 07:39:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Caleseros - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The brawl at the Gallo’s inn https://historylab.es/the-brawl-at-the-gallos-inn/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-brawl-at-the-gallos-inn Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:19 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/la-rina-en-el-meson-del-gallo/ Representation of social reality through the recreation of an episode of conflict between muleteers and rickshaw pullers

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]]> This work is a sketch of the tapestry cartoon entitled “Brawl at the Venta Nueva” which belongs to Goya’s second series of cartoons. The subjects depicted are of a festive nature, reflecting scenes from everyday life. The master from Zaragoza depicts a dispute between muleteers and carriage drivers at the door of the inn due to the bets on the card game that appear on the table. The scene, which is extremely violent, expresses the irrational and aggressive behaviour of human beings when money is involved. Goya has taken great care with the attitudes and gestures of the figures, indicating the role of each character, as, for example, the costumes reveal their origin or condition (the Murcian with his back turned or the Andalusian calesero), demonstrating the artist’s interest in a rigorous analysis of reality

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]]> The squabble at the new sale https://historylab.es/the-squabble-at-the-new-sale/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-squabble-at-the-new-sale Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:19 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/la-rina-en-la-venta-nueva/ Social conflict around a sale in 18th-century Spain as depicted by Goya

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]]> Tapestry cartoon depicting a brawl in front of what Goya defines as Venta Nueva. Although its walls are cracked and the cross that crowns it is tilted to one side, with a certain irony it provides a metaphorical sense of the timelessness of human violence. The inn is located at a crossroads, where a variety of characters gather, carriage drivers and muleteers whose attire reveals that they come from different parts of Spain. The golds and clubs thrown on the table indicate the motif of the fight in which the protagonists use all possible weapons (stones, sticks, knives and even a pistol). The theme of the work is reminiscent of similar compositions typical of the genre scenes of the Flemish and Dutch tradition used in the manufacture of tapestries since the 17th century. However, Goya conceived his composition with the grandeur of Italian classicism, and some of the figures and groups are even derived from classical sculpture.

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