Claroscuro - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 07:41:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Claroscuro - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Still life with figures https://historylab.es/still-life-with-figures/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=still-life-with-figures Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:14 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/bodegon-con-figuras/ Still life around food, depicting Spanish costumbrismo in the 17th century

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]]> This genre of decorative paintings for domestic settings, with market scenes, kitchens and other settings with still lifes and figures, was intended to provoke laughter in the viewer through the physical qualities of the shopkeepers or through moral defects such as gluttony. Thus, their function had a moralising significance, alluding to sayings or commonplaces known to the people of the time. Despite the rudeness of these still lifes, Baroque-era creations contain a polysemy that made them complex even at that time, such as the fact that the painting is written in Latin, which shows that they were intended for a specific public due to the level of erudition shown. Thanks to this type of work, clues can be sought in the study of food or clothing and, through this, of the social types existing at the time. On the right is a gentleman holding an open melon, dressed in the typical court costume of the courtly sphere.

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]]> Village cooking https://historylab.es/village-cooking-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=village-cooking-2 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:14 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/cocina-de-puebla/ Representation of Hispanic culinary costumbrismo through visions of Mesoamerican cuisine

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]]> The table shows, through the genre of still lifes and still lifes, European tradition with a local Mexican flavour. Scattered around the table are pulque, avocados, tortillas, chiles en nogada, meat in sauce, chicken in mole and hot chocolate. Agustín Arrieta was the greatest representative of Puebla’s kitchens in terms of table settings and cupboards. Far from the mystical meanings and on the fringes of artistic symbolism, we can understand the consumption habits of the new middle and bourgeois classes of post-independence Mexico, as well as the sensory experience of the suggestive world of colours, smells, flavours and form of Puebla’s gastronomy.

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