La colección de vaciados griegos y romanos del museo nacional de las culturas/ inah, México

Identificador:  TDX:1944

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX1944

Autors:  Cervera Obregon, Marco

Resum:
This thesis aboard some aspects of classical sculpture and its relation to the plaster casts collection of greco- roman of the Museo Nacional de las Culturas, Mexico. The origins of classical archeology, the history of ancient art, the creation of the first collections of Greco- Roman sculpture, as well as major European plaster casts collection, subject associated with the conformation of this collection Based on the unpublished documents extracted from the archive file of the Museo Nacional de las Culturas, the historical development of the collection is made. Participation of the real Academia de San Fernando in Madrid, for the future foundation of its counterpart in Mexico is highlighted , the Academia de San Carlos, and this is the main precedent collections by 1965 become part of the National Museum of Cultures, belonging to the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. This proposal of museum context switch to a more focused proposal in history, archaeology and knowledge of the civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean. Some of the materials presented are plastercast of some of the best known of the Mediterranean civilizations such as greek, roman , etruscan and iberian, materials that have allowed the mexican public to approach classical archaeology and art artistic expressions of these cultures . This work is important to the development of knowledge of the classical world in Mexico, from the standpoint of archaeology, history and art history perspective.