Trabajo; oficios; historia del trabajo; pintura; artes mecánicas; rural; campesino; campesinado; caballo; herradura; herrador; Museo del Prado; siglo XVIII; Aguirre - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 07:29:39 +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 Trabajo; oficios; historia del trabajo; pintura; artes mecánicas; rural; campesino; campesinado; caballo; herradura; herrador; Museo del Prado; siglo XVIII; Aguirre - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 A horseshoe shop https://historylab.es/a-horseshoe-shop/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-horseshoe-shop Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:38 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/un-herradero/ Rural scene in which the blacksmith and his assistants are shown putting a horseshoe on the horse in the centre of the composition

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]]> The work by Ginés Andrés de Aguirre depicts a horseshoe shop with all the typical functions that were carried out in these spaces. Looking at the composition from right to left, we can see the manufacture of horseshoes, the difficulty of equipping horses with them – reflected in the foreground – and finally, in the left-hand margin, the exercise of riding. The work could also be read in the opposite direction, from left to right, changing the factors and the narrative discourse without changing the content.

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