Lotos, papiros y esfinges. La influencia egipcianizante en la arquitectura funeraria del Cementerio de la Recoleta
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2011-12
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Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. Centro de Estudios Sobre Diversidad Cultural
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El propósito de este artículo es ponderar el impacto de la egiptomanía en la arquitectura funeraria del Cementerio del Norte, actual Cementerio de la Recoleta, en la ciudad de Buenos Aires durante la década de 1920. La elección del este cementerio responde, no obstante, al hecho de que en él se encuentra, en torno a esta fecha, un conjunto de mausoleos cuya arquitectura y ornamentación presenta características egipcianizantes. La lectura crítica de las fuentes –tanto de los registros del cementerio como de la prensa porteña– y el análisis de la iconografía presente en los monumentos evidencia el impacto del descubrimiento de la tumba de Tutankhamon en la arquitectura funeraria de este cementerio. No obstante, esta apropiación de modas europeas, que a su vez retomaban elementos del Egipto antiguo, se combinó en el caso local, con el art déco.
The purpose of this work is to weigh the impact of egiptomany in funerary architecture in the 1920s in Cementerio del Norte (today, Cemetery of Recoleta) in the city of Buenos Aires. The choice of this cemetery reflects the fact that there is a group of mausoleums that were built during this period with egiptianized features. Critical reading of documents, both the cemetery records as well as the press from Buenos Aires and analysis on the iconography of the mausoleums present evidence of the impact of the discovery of Tutankhamon’s tomb in the funerary architecture of the cemetery. However, this appropriation of European fashions, that were taking elements from ancient Egypt, has been combined in the local case, to Art Deco.
The purpose of this work is to weigh the impact of egiptomany in funerary architecture in the 1920s in Cementerio del Norte (today, Cemetery of Recoleta) in the city of Buenos Aires. The choice of this cemetery reflects the fact that there is a group of mausoleums that were built during this period with egiptianized features. Critical reading of documents, both the cemetery records as well as the press from Buenos Aires and analysis on the iconography of the mausoleums present evidence of the impact of the discovery of Tutankhamon’s tomb in the funerary architecture of the cemetery. However, this appropriation of European fashions, that were taking elements from ancient Egypt, has been combined in the local case, to Art Deco.
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Arquitectura funeraria, Egiptomanía, Representaciones, Cementerio de la Recoleta, Funerary Architecture, Egyptomania, Recoleta´s Cemetery