CONRAD MARTENS, A LANDSCAPE PAINTER AT THE END OF THE WORLD. IMAGES AND THE VOYAGE OF BEAGLE (1831-1836)

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Marta Penhos

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This article focuses on the artistic production of Conrad Martens (1801-1878) during the second stage of the Beagles voyage (1831-1836). Martens was part of the expedition between 1833 and 1834 during one of the surveys in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. This work is based on the premise that images were important factors in the construction, transmission and dissemination of scientific knowledge and artistic elaborations about non-European spaces and their inhabitants in the journeys and expeditions of modernity, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries. The examination of the watercolors and drawings of Martens and other visual and textual sources is used to test the hypothesis that the painter’s training as landscape painter was in tension with the observation of spaces with characteristics far from the current artistic models in Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.

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Penhos, M. (2020). CONRAD MARTENS, A LANDSCAPE PAINTER AT THE END OF THE WORLD. IMAGES AND THE VOYAGE OF BEAGLE (1831-1836). Magallania, 189–214. Retrieved from https://magallania.cl/index.php/magallania/article/view/1261
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