Malaga and Mexico cultural heritage: learning two-way architectures

Abstract

The cultural legacy left by Andalusia on the American territory is reflected in religious and civil architecture correspondence since the arrival of the Spaniards to this continent at the end of the 15th century. The Chronicle relates the built heritage on both sides of the Atlantic, contextualizing the Malaga and Mexican identities for their better understanding. Using another plastic visual language linked to architecture, different decorations and paintings are presented to give place to different native messages. Therefore, references to testimonies about concise object representations such as plants and animals (agaves, monkeys and feathers) are mixed up with more conceptual themes, which belong to intellectual Renaissance circles like Greco-Roman mythology paintings and interpretations of Petrarca’s writings, or Baroque theological statements. Knowledge transfer is shown by photographs and proposes a cultural heritage rich in data for any interested in this matter. This article preserves the texts, with picture summary, of the exhibition called From Malaga to Mexico, a visual tour of the Baroque heritage, by the same author.