Campesinado; Historia rural; historia de la familia; campesinos; Maella; Museo del Prado; siglo XIX; alegoría; invierno; pareja; frío; hielo; nieve - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 19 May 2022 15:22:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Campesinado; Historia rural; historia de la familia; campesinos; Maella; Museo del Prado; siglo XIX; alegoría; invierno; pareja; frío; hielo; nieve - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Winter https://historylab.es/winter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=winter Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:43 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/el-invierno/ Allegory of winter with a peasant couple in an open interior

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]]> Salvador Maella depicts the interior of a house set in a snowy, nocturnal landscape, with a peasant couple warming themselves by the fire next to a table with dinner ready. The scene possibly alludes to the myth of Hades and Persephone linked to this season, during which Persephone lives in the underworld with Hades, her abductor, refusing the food he prepares to keep her in his kingdom.

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