Arte y sociedad: escenas de interior en la pintura sevillana entre la revolución de 1868 y el final del reinado de Alfonso XIII.

Abstract

This doctoral thesis presents the iconographic study of Sevillian society in the nineteenth century as well as the first decades of twentieth century through interior scenes. Putting the emphasis in the period between the Revolution of September and the Alphonsine Restoration (1868-1931), subjects related to domestic and public life and the world of work are shown. These subjects are headed by an in-depth chapter on the romantic era’s artistic creation, which was different, both in purpose and form, from the realistic production of the second half of the century, but linked to this one. The research includes, with a certain catalographic nature, a selection of representative works of the society of the time. It draws a perspective that encompasses the reality of all social classes, thereby avoiding the traditional and elitist standpoint that we can see projected in the works published in our country to this day. Inside painting of painters formed in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Saint Isabel of Hungary within the Spanish and foreign framework (Italy, France, Argentina, Mexico…) is analysed too. Furthermore, the knowledge about everyday life, privacy, mentality, and customs and traditions of Seville in the nineteenth century is approached in an original way, with emphasis on its intrahistory. Current topics such as women’s history, gender history are proposed, thus providing a refreshing vision of the socio-cultural, artistic, ethnographic, religious, anthropological history... which takes as a basis the pictorial repertoire and its interconnections with the literary production.