Reflections on Reflections

• Autores: Emily Umberger, Francesca Bavuso
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 92, Nº 1-2, 2010, págs. 54-57
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A response to Byron Ellsworth Hamann's essay “The Mirrors of Las Meninas: Cochineal, Silver, and Clay,” published in the March/June 2010 issue of The Art Bulletin. Through an analysis of Mexican colonial objects in Diego Velázquez's 1656 masterpiece Las meninas, Hamann's essay seeks to demonstrate that the painting reveals transatlantic connections linking Amerindian laborers in the New World to Spanish courtiers in Madrid, from which he concludes that the painting can be included in the the field of colonial studies. Here, the writers maintain that Hamann's employment of the material history of objects for this purpose is based on some unexamined assumptions; in addition, he neglects to follow crucial lines of evidence on the culture and ideation of the 17th-century Spanish court.