Abstract

MALOSETTI COSTA, Laura. LOS RETRATOS DE GIL DE CASTRO EN LA ARGENTINA*. Rev. hist. am. argent. [online]. 2017, vol.52, n.1, pp.181-197. ISSN 2314-1549.

The Peruvian painter José Gil de Castro (1785-1841), active in Chile in the years of the wars of independence, was the most prolific and significant painter of the period: author of the first portraits of the Libertadores and all the officers of the Ejército de los Andes, he contributed to create a visual culture of the revolutionary period. Although the National Historical Museum of Argentina preserves the greatest set of his portraits, national historiography has practically ignored him. This text reproduces some aspects of the analysis of the fortune critique of the work of this artist whose catalogue raisonee has been recently published.

Keywords : José Gil de Castro; Painting; National Historical Museum of Argentina; Artistic Historiography.