Museum in Cuba hosts exhibition on Latin American advocacies

Havana, Jul 15 (Prensa Latina) The National Museum of Fine Arts in Cuba will host from today the exhibition Advocaciones Marianas. Eternal Mothers, a testimony of the varied, complex and original repertoire of the iconographic typologies of these virgins in the region.

Scheduled to run until Jan. 15, 2023 in the transitory hall of the Universal Art Building, the works correspond to apparitions of Mary or arise from the qualities or mystical endowments of the Jewish woman, identified in various biblical passages as the mother of Jesus.

“The exhibition is the result of a cataloguing study of the Latin American Art Collection of the Havana art gallery. One of the outstanding aspects is the detailed analysis of the pieces that allowed for their recognition,” curator Yanet Berto told Prensa Latina.

The compendium includes 14 paintings, dating from the 17th to 19th centuries and corresponding to the baroque style, except for one that, according to experts involved in the organization, shows neoclassical features. According to Berto, the paintings come from territories that currently correspond to Mexico, Peru and Bolivia; three of them belong to known authors and only one of them incorporates the signature of its creator, as it was common at the time for the pieces to leave the workshops without a signature.

The specialist also refers to the intervention of several artists, masters, journeymen and apprentices in the conception of a graphic proposal, hence the presence of different qualities of strokes and the diverse use of colors in some compositions.