Images Donation and Reciprocity in San Isidro (Buenos Aires, 18th- 19th centuries)

• Main Author: Vanina Scocchera
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de Granada 2016-12-01
• Series: Cuadernos de Arte de la Universidad de Granada
• Subjects: imágenes de culto y devoción; prácticas de reciprocidad; arte colonial
• Online Access: http://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/caug/article/view/5421

<p>The aim of this paper is to study cultic and devotional images considering their leading role in religious spheres during 18th and 19th centuries. Because of images’ agency, social actors related to Buenos Aires elite seek to exalt their virtuosity and religious identification. In this sense, this paper aims to study a group of images that played specific functions as active agents in familiar devotion, symbolic goods donated to public spheres with the aim of creation or renovation of a local cult, as well as images in dispute for their returning to private sphere. Understand the itineraries that images crossed will allow us to elaborate a deeper and study of their functions and capacities, together with the social reaches of donation concept in a public space as San Isidro Church.</p>