This afternoon at 7 pm, the Instituto Cervantes of Madrid (calle Alcalá, 49) organizes in its auditorium a conversation about the relationship between European engraving and viceregal art.
Twenty years after the start of the Project on the Engraved Sources of Spanish Colonial Art (PESSCA), it is worth reflecting on its findings, which have made it possible to establish the relationship between thousands of works of viceregal art, in particular those that emerged in the Viceroyalty of Peru, and European engravings, especially flamenco, which inspired the creative work of artists from the region.
PESSCA has a website that has continued to grow and is now the most consulted and important tool for knowledge of this exciting chapter in the history of American art. The project is hosted by the University of California in Davis and the Pontifical Catholic University in Lima.
Its creator, Almerindo E. Ojeda, Professor Emeritus of the University of California and Honorary Professor of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, will talk with Luisa Elena Alcalá, Full professor of the Department of History and Theory of Art at the Autonomous University of Madrid and recognized specialist in art of the American viceroyalty. The dialogue will be moderated by Alonso Ruiz Rosas, cultural attaché of the Embassy of Peru.
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