Manzanares - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 07:39:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Manzanares - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The afternoon snack https://historylab.es/the-afternoon-snack/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-afternoon-snack Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:19 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/la-merienda/ Representation of social recreation reflected through the majos painted by Goya

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]]> Tapestry cartoon by Goya depicting a group of majos, seated on the banks of the Manzanares on the outskirts of Madrid, resting, eating, drinking and smoking while toasting the orange seller who has approached them with his merchandise. On the right, the hermitage of the Virgen del Puerto can be glimpsed, hidden by a group of trees. The tapestry resulting from this cartoon would hang in the dining room of the Princes of Asturias (Charles IV and Maria Luisa of Parma) in the Palacio del Pardo, being one of the ten tapestries that made up the series of “country scenes”

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]]> Dancing on the banks of the Manzanares https://historylab.es/dancing-on-the-banks-of-the-manzanares/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dancing-on-the-banks-of-the-manzanares Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:19 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/baile-a-orillas-del-manzanares/ Goya's playful depiction of 18th century society

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]]> A tapestry cartoon by Goya depicting a popular scene of majos and majas dancing seguidillas, a popular dance from the region of Castile la Nueva and Madrid that is less lively than the fandango. The view of the banks of the Manzanares faithfully reflects, in the foreground, the area of the Pontones bridge, from where, according to the Zaragozan painter, “in the distance you can see a little of Madrid through San Francisco”. In addition to this one, there are other drawings of the banks of the Manzanares in Goya’s Italian notebook in the Museo del Prado. The tapestry resulting from this cartoon was intended to hang on one of the panels on the side walls of the dining room of the future Charles IV in the Palacio del Pardo in Madrid

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