Fortuna Labilis. A baroque topic in the artistic work of Juan Maniel Blanes.

Abstract

The continuity of certain topics of Baroque culture in the nineteenth-century Latin American art can also occur in the work of Uruguayan artist Juan Manuel Blanes. Uruguay and Argentina historiography emphasized the importance of this author as a representative of academic painting and as a key player in building a national icon-sphere. However, little research has been done about the survival of images and ideas that come from a pre-enlightened past; nor about the links with the flagship, carrying a body of literature of ideas and images that transformed and adjusted to new genres such as history painting, they are kept alive in his work, until the late nineteenth century.