Patrimonio arqueológico español en
Roma como instrumentos de memoria histórica
Le Mostre Internazionali di Archeologia
Trinidad Tortosa Rocamora
This book
collects the results of a Spanish-Italian collaboration related to
the Spanish involvement in the Mostra Internazionale di Archeologia
organized in 1911 at the Baths of Diocletian, and the 1937 Mostra
Augustea della Romanità promoted by Benito Mussolini in Rome. As final results of this
investigation carried out by a group of scholars from both
countries, we identify the archaeological material that Spain
selected for both exhibitions, analysing the politic and scientific
contexts in which both exhibitions were put into practice through
the archive documents and the press reports both Spanish and
Italian-.
The particular moment that our nation lives during the first decade
of the 20th century, allows for Spain to organize a historical
discourse in its assigned room for the Mostra in 1911. The
protohistoric environment is represented by a number of
archaeological items among which the Dama de los Cerros de los
Santos (Albacete) stands out. This piece, placed in the centre of
the room, integrates itself with the other Roman items, creating a
wider historic discourse.
This book analyses the casts and photographs sent by Spain in 1911,
many of which have been mostly discovered and identified in the
storage rooms of the Museo della Civiltà Romana. Such pieces were
exhibited in few occasions during the Mostra of 1937, along with
scale models of iconic monuments of the Hispanic Roman sphere such
as the Arco de Barà (Tarragona) or the Puente de Alcántara
(Cáceres).
These studies on the archaeological aspects of the Exhibition in
1911 have been complemented with a further analysis of the Spanish
section at the "International Arts Exhibition" which was
being held in Rome at the same time.
Therefore, this research seeks in the first place to establish a
new methodology and experiment a possible reconstruction of the
historical memory about the national identity reflected by the
Spanish sent archaeological material on each of the aforementioned
events. Secondly, this volume tries to stress the importance of
analysing these International Exhibitions in order to understand
them as vehicles for the dissemination of the European archaeology.
Este libro
recoge los resultados de una colaboración española e italiana en
relación a la participación
hispana en la Mostra Internazionale di Archeologia organizada en
1911, en las Termas de Diocleciano y la Mostra Augustea della
Romanità propiciada por Benito Mussolini
en Roma, en 1937. Como resultados globales de esta investigación
llevada a cabo por un grupo de estudiosos de ambos países,
identificamos el material arqueológico que España selecciona para
ambas exposiciones, analizando a través de los documentos de
archivo y de las noticias de prensa -tanto española como italiana -
los contextos políticos y científicos en los que se desarrollaron
ambas exhibiciones.
El momento particular que nuestro país vive en la primera década
del siglo XX, propiciará que España estructure, en 1911, un
discurso histórico en la sala que tiene asignada para esta Mostra,
en la que el ámbito protohistórico se encuentra representado a
través de varios objetos arqueológicos, entre ellos destaca la
escultura ibérica de la Dama del Cerro de los Santos (Albacete).
Esta pieza, que ocupa el centro de la sala, se integra con el resto
de objetos romanos, mostrando un discurso histórico más amplio. Se
analizan los vaciados y fotografías que nuestro país envía en 1911
y que, en buena parte, hemos podido descubrir e identificar en los
almacenes del Museo della Civiltà Romana. Piezas que, en ocasiones,
vuelven a exhibirse en la Mostra de 1937, a la que
se incorporan en esta ocasión algunas maquetas correspondientes a
monumentos tan icónicos en el panorama del ámbito romano hispano
como son el Arco de Barà (Tarragona) o al puente de Alcántara
(Cáceres)....
