Thursday, March 17, 2016

Mexican Academy participate in commemoration of Carlos III – UniEnsenada (press release) (blog)


  Madrid, 17 Mar (Notimex) .- The former Academy of San Carlos, now National School of Plastic Arts of the UNAM will participate this year in the acts by the third centenary of the birth of King Carlos III, which are mainly held in Spain.

at a press conference, representatives of the institutions that organize the commemoration reported that throughout this year, and mainly between December and February 2017 activities will be held to remember the reign of known as “the best mayor of Madrid”.

the House of America, National Heritage, Cultural Action Spanish, Madrid, City of Madrid, Real Academia de la Historia, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and the National Archaeological Museum organized the celebrations.

the institutions want to highlight the architectural, artistic, academic and modernization character that gave Carlos III the Spanish kingdom from 1759-1788.

in this context, the exhibition “Carlos III and Dissemination of antiquity” link to the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, the Naples National Archaeological Museum and the National School of Plastic Arts of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

the event will be held simultaneously on 13 December in the three institutions promoted by Carlos III, and the study of the findings of excavations at Pompeii was dedicated.

in his reign in Naples between 1731 and 1735, and Sicily between 1734 to 1759, he was promoted research of Pompeii and Stabiae, and move to Spain requested copies of plaster for study, and from there went to Mexico to create the Academy in 1780.

therefore, the exhibition will highlight the dissemination of archaeological discoveries, and the impetus given to their knowledge in the academies of San Fernando in Madrid and San Carlos in Mexico.

the exhibition is coordinated in Madrid by the academician of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Jose Maria Luzon, and in Mexico by the coordinator of the Faculty, José de Santiago.

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