La misión de la historia en el dieciocho español. Arte y cultura visual en la imagen de América

Abstract

The History role as a knowledge source in the Eighteenth-Century forced an objective revision about the past Spanish influence in America to answer to European accusations spread from the previous century. In this speech, the visual propaganda of the art of the portrait was determinant to construct an image of America where its main protagonists should reconciled the mistakes of the past with the projection of a future built under the spirit of the Enlightenment and the new values and virtues of universal type.