The View of Mexico in Carl Nebel and Adele Breton as a Construction of the Post-Virreinal Imaginary.

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https://doi.org/10.46661/atrio.10818

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Mexico, 19th Century, Travelling artists, Carl Nebel, Adele Breton, Post-Virreinal imaginary

Abstract

The illustrations in the Picturesque and Archaeological Journey to the Most Interesting Part of Mexico by Carl Nebel Habes (1802-1855) and the watercolours by Adele Catherine Breton (1849-1923) share the same programmatic idea, although they differ in the way they present it. Both are rightfully part of the nominated travelling artists, although other names such as Humboldt, Rugendas or Egerton have capitalised on the bibliographical interest in this phenomenon. Some of the aims of this article are to draw attention to these two artists, to confront their different ways of confronting the Mexican past and present from the points of their different formation and condition, but also from very different times, ranging from Nebel's post-independence period to Breton's Porfiriato.

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Francisco Javier Pizarro Gómez, Universidad de Extremadura, Cáceres, España

Professor of Art History at the University of Extremadura. He is a specialist in the artistic heritage of Extremadura and Latin America, and is the principal investigator of various R&D research projects on Novo-Hispanic heritage. He is in charge of the Academic Staff for the Study of Novo-Hispanic Culture at the UPAEP (Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla. Mexico). Director of the Research Group ‘Extremadura and America’ at the University of Extremadura. He is a Full Member of the Royal Academy of Letters and Arts of Extremadura and a Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, Santa Isabel de Hungría in Seville and the National Academy of History and Geography of Mexico. Honorary Professor of the Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (Mexico). 

Angelika García Manso, Universidad de Extremadura, Cáceres, España

Angelika García Manso (Cáceres, 1981) is a professor at the University of Extremadura. She obtained her PhD in Art History in 2009 with a Doctoral Thesis on the History of Cinema and its relationship with the other Arts. Her Degree and Thesis received important awards, such as the National Degree Award and the Extraordinary Doctorate Award, among others. He has been a speaker at important national and international conferences, and has enjoyed research stays at the Universidade de Lisboa, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the Syddansk Universitet in Odense (Denmark). She is currently working on the feminine imaginary in viceregal art within the ‘Extremadura and America’ research group, directed by the Professor of Ibero-American Art Francisco Javier Pizarro Gómez.

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Published

2025-05-12

How to Cite

Pizarro Gómez, F. J. and García Manso, A. (2025) “The View of Mexico in Carl Nebel and Adele Breton as a Construction of the Post-Virreinal Imaginary”., Atrio. Revista de Historia del Arte. Sevilla, España, (31), pp. 338–361. doi: 10.46661/atrio.10818.

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