Knowledge Commons | History of Art | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/history-of-art/ Activity feed for the group, History of Art. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:40:55 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 84e2c3b7080dfe3898bd9aa086b68f70 Juan Antonio Fernandez Rivero deposited La fotografía comercial y los álbumes de viaje en la España del XIX. in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902151/ Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:00:44 -0400 The study of 44 albums has allowed us to make an approximation to the topographic photography that professional photographers carried out in Spain and to observe the relative importance of each one according to their production and their ability to become part of the albums of those travelers who traveled the Spanish geography from 1860
to 1900.…[Read more]

]]> 0 c8e3e417032a2bbad1a981c9cae27e72 Juan Antonio Fernandez Rivero deposited La colección de fotografías de España, Portugal y Gibraltar de la casa Francis Frith & Co. in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874260/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 03:00:10 -0500 La colección ibérica de la casa Frith es una de las más interesantes del panorama fotográfico peninsular del siglo XIX. Y ello es así por lo temprano de su realización, en la década de 1860, por su extensión, numérica y geográfica, y también por su calidad técnica y artística.
En 2007 esta colección fue objeto de un amplio estudio y una excelen…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e2840e8a2c8dd2d8b1972ed3058dd3a Juan Antonio Fernandez Rivero deposited The collection of photographs from Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar of Francis Frith & Co. in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1873729/ Sun, 28 Jan 2024 03:03:33 -0500 The Iberian collection of Frith & Co. is one of the most interesting in the 19th century peninsular photographic scene. And this is so due to its earliness in the 1860s, due to its numerical and geographical extension, and also due to its technical and artistic quality.

In 2007, this collection was the subject of an extensive study and an…[Read more]

]]> 0 9341fb925d0454100ad4b8e5b9a01ea1 Elizabeth B. Davis deposited "Woman, Why Weepest Thou?" Re-Visioning the Golden Age Magdalen in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1835737/ Wed, 01 Mar 2023 02:24:05 -0500 This article examines Mary Magdalene's biblical identity and poetic representation in selected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish texts. An alternative reading or "re-visioning" (Adrienne Rich's term) of the narratives that tell her story reclaims her figure from masculinist characterizations of Mary Magdalene that have made an enduring…[Read more]

]]> 0 07be2232a42c25b6a00ce98927e1db91 Juan Antonio Fernandez Rivero deposited British Stereo Photographers in Spain: Frank M. Good in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818247/ Thu, 20 Oct 2022 02:25:48 -0400 Unlike French stereo photographers, who flooded the market with Spanish views, the most important British publishers and photographers rarely made Spanish views. Quite possibly this was precisely because of the rapid market penetration of the French, such as Gaudin, Ferrier and others, and in spite of the leading British photographic houses, such…[Read more]

]]> 0 6769b9f8249121ac4dd880cd6ee0c741 Juan Antonio Fernandez Rivero deposited La obra fotográfica de José Spreáfico in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818243/ Thu, 20 Oct 2022 02:25:27 -0400 José Spreáfico (1831-1878) is especially known for his two albums conserved in the archive of the Royal Palace (Madrid): the railroad from Malaga to Cordoba and La Rábida. Their daring plans of bridges and railroads and their additions to the human element, have captivated the authors who have been dealing with the history of Spanish ph…[Read more]

]]> 0 283554c3affcde8a2b6401963b2d0b36 Juan Antonio Fernandez Rivero deposited La fotografía militar en la guerra de África: Enrique Facio in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818240/ Thu, 20 Oct 2022 02:25:11 -0400 The first time that there is historical steadfastness of the presence of a photographer in a warlike conflict, as graphic correspondent is in the war of Crimea, in 1854-55. In the successive conflicts armed with importance that happen from this date, 1859 and 1860, with the reunification of Italy and other episodes in the British empire, the photo…[Read more]

]]> 0 55111fd862012ad7007f4b006de0b294 Juan Antonio Fernandez Rivero deposited La estereoscopia en España – Introducción y desarrollo in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816477/ Wed, 05 Oct 2022 02:23:38 -0400 A complete investigation of the introduction of the photographic technique of stereoscopy in Spain, its development through the photographers who practiced it and their photographs. / Una completa investigación de la introducción de la técnica fotográfica de la estereoscopia en España, su desarrollo a través de los fotógrafos que la practi…[Read more]

]]> 0 accae1f335b9fe4a05497a64b9ef91e6 Stefano Verri deposited Il punto e la virgola del poeta dei segni in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1789926/ Wed, 10 Aug 2022 02:25:21 -0400 Catalogo realizzato in occasione della serie di mostre dedicate, tra il 2021 e il 2022, dalla Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Jesi, dal Museo d'Arte Moderna e della Mail Art di Montecarotto (AN) e dal Museo Nori De' Nobili di Trecastelli (AN), all'opera di Magdalo Mussio. Il testo prende in esame, in particolare, l'opera grafico-pittorica, oltre…[Read more]

]]> 0 02245e5eca55d4da95dc9fb3d1c39626 Juan Antonio Fernandez Rivero deposited La Casa Laurent y la fotografía estereoscópica / The Laurent Company and stereoscopic photography in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1787685/ Tue, 19 Jul 2022 02:23:41 -0400 The enormous interest that justifiably awakens the figure of Jean Laurent and his photographic work, not only among photohistorians but also in those who are interested in the many facets of cultural life of the nineteenth century in Spain, even in the general public, corresponds in reality to the large number of studies that he has been the…[Read more]

]]> 0 d30de976f6864e2d2c7be9317b6f117d Juan Antonio Fernandez Rivero deposited La fotografía en la obra de Gustavo Doré durante su viaje a España in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1703563/ Thu, 30 Jul 2020 02:25:17 -0400 Gustavo Doré is considered one of the great universal illustrators. Throughout his life he made a very extensive work highlighting especially the work done to illustrate the Bible, the Quixote and the Divine Comedy. In 1862 he embarked on a trip through Spain accompanied by hispanist Charles Davillier.…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc4a3896c2c061f9a1aeb2f61120cb71 Juan Antonio Fernandez Rivero deposited El álbum de Adra in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1692385/ Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:29:36 -0400 The discovery of a photo album of the nineteenth century, the Andalusian village of Adra, Albuñol, Berja, Dalias and Almeria itself, causes a thorough investigation into its origin and its authors link with the history of these towns.
Spanish abstract: El descubrimiento de un álbum con fotografías del siglo XIX, de las localidades almeríenses de…[Read more]

]]> 0 36dac396100d1d0cf1d9e3b6d9b6824e Juan Antonio Fernandez Rivero deposited La España romántica en versión estereoscópica in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1692381/ Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:29:14 -0400 After the discoveries and experiences of Charles Wheatstone and David Brewster, the stereoscopic photography turns into a great industry from the second half of the decade of 1850. The photography in general and the stereoscopic especially had great influence in the iconographic world of his time and therefore also in the image or graphic…[Read more]

]]> 0 037109c14c805c849b73e722dbc502e0 Juan Antonio Fernandez Rivero deposited Laurent y Málaga in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1692376/ Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:28:53 -0400 Jean Laurent, of French origin, opened a photography studio in Madrid in the mid-1850s. During the following decades, between 1860 and 1880, he consolidated the most important photographic company in the Spain of the nineteenth century, in the style of the great European photographic houses. His work encompassed a large collection of sights and…[Read more]

]]> 0 db40ed571a9a0af800232f788036c85d Juan Antonio Fernandez Rivero deposited Charles Monney, un fotógrafo singular in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1686825/ Sun, 10 May 2020 16:27:01 -0400 Gathering all this news about Charles Monney (París 1830-Madrid 1875) and delving into the details of his professional life have made us consider his contribution to Spanish photography in its first decades. A photographer whose beginnings are linked to the legendary group of passer-by pioneers, somewhat later but who reminds us of photographers…[Read more]

]]> 0 762532b8d54ebcacb5f8d8869723e609 Chara Kolokytha created the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666697/ Thu, 17 Oct 2019 03:59:06 -0400 0