Galicia,
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An exhibition from the regional Culture Council opens tomorrow
May 9, 2016 - 2:18 PM
Galicia narrated through 100 objects
An exhibition from the regional Culture Council opens tomorrow
May 9, 2016 - 2:18 PM
A Hebrew codex, an apothecary vessel, a lectern and a padded dressing gown could explain the history of Galicia. These are four of the 100 objects which the Galician Culture Council has placed in an exhibition tomorrow in the Santiago Foundation headquarters.
They are not in many cases the most valuable utensils used by the Galician since lower Palaeolithic to the 90’s of last century, but they have been selected ‘for their capacity to explain aspects of the Galician identity, territory, society and culture, noting how these things have changed over time’ explained the organisers.
The Benjamin Kennicott Bible (Born April 4 1718 in Totnes and died September 18 1783 in Oxford) was an English churchman and Hebrew scholar, and remembers the Jewish presence in the northeast of the peninsular, of which hardly any relics remain. It is a manuscript which was completed on June 24 1476 in La Coruña and is preserved in the Bodleian library in Oxford.
‘It is considered one of the most important medieval Spanish Hebrew manuscripts’ said María Gloria de Antonio Rubio, doctorate in medieval history and researcher at the Spanish Superior Council for Scientific Investigations.
With this book, the visitor returns to the time of the Jewish communities in the Galician towns of Betanzos, Allariz or Ribadavia. Between 1464 and 1491 the Jewish population oscillated between 33 and 195 people, according to tributary data from the epoch.
And next to his codex, a piece of clothing so modern – the padded dressing gown, symbolising the massive expanse which Inditex today supposes. With their company, Amancio Ortega and Rosalía Mera opened their first store in Calle Rosendo, and now have more than 7,000 stores dotted around the world.
This is a British idea – ‘Galicia 100 – Objects to tell a culture’ the title of the exhibition, was inspired by the idea from the British Museum and BBC Radio 4, which in 2010 presented a similar project. ‘We will offer a transversal and historic reading with objects of great artistic or referential value and useful in the daily lives of the time. But we will not follow the traditional chronological discourse, but we will procure that the pieces speak between each other and to the visitors via epochs and grand concepts’. Commissioned by Manuel Gago, with the collaboration of outstanding specialists, more then seventy institutions, companies and collectors have granted objects such as the apothecary vessel, which in its day was at the service of the pilgrims in the Hotel of the Catholic Kings, as engraved.
Purchased in Sevilla in 1875, it forms part of a collection of 961 pieces of ceramics from the Museum of Pobo Galego (Galician people in the Galician language) which makes a good representation. The church of San Domingos de Bonaval holds custody of one of the most extraordinary lecterns in the region, which was used for the singing books in the liturgical celebrations and played a highlighted role in monastic orders and conceptions.
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They are not in many cases the most valuable utensils used by the Galician since lower Palaeolithic to the 90’s of last century, but they have been selected ‘for their capacity to explain aspects of the Galician identity, territory, society and culture, noting how these things have changed over time’ explained the organisers.
The Benjamin Kennicott Bible (Born April 4 1718 in Totnes and died September 18 1783 in Oxford) was an English churchman and Hebrew scholar, and remembers the Jewish presence in the northeast of the peninsular, of which hardly any relics remain. It is a manuscript which was completed on June 24 1476 in La Coruña and is preserved in the Bodleian library in Oxford.
‘It is considered one of the most important medieval Spanish Hebrew manuscripts’ said María Gloria de Antonio Rubio, doctorate in medieval history and researcher at the Spanish Superior Council for Scientific Investigations.
With this book, the visitor returns to the time of the Jewish communities in the Galician towns of Betanzos, Allariz or Ribadavia. Between 1464 and 1491 the Jewish population oscillated between 33 and 195 people, according to tributary data from the epoch.
And next to his codex, a piece of clothing so modern – the padded dressing gown, symbolising the massive expanse which Inditex today supposes. With their company, Amancio Ortega and Rosalía Mera opened their first store in Calle Rosendo, and now have more than 7,000 stores dotted around the world.
This is a British idea – ‘Galicia 100 – Objects to tell a culture’ the title of the exhibition, was inspired by the idea from the British Museum and BBC Radio 4, which in 2010 presented a similar project. ‘We will offer a transversal and historic reading with objects of great artistic or referential value and useful in the daily lives of the time. But we will not follow the traditional chronological discourse, but we will procure that the pieces speak between each other and to the visitors via epochs and grand concepts’. Commissioned by Manuel Gago, with the collaboration of outstanding specialists, more then seventy institutions, companies and collectors have granted objects such as the apothecary vessel, which in its day was at the service of the pilgrims in the Hotel of the Catholic Kings, as engraved.
Purchased in Sevilla in 1875, it forms part of a collection of 961 pieces of ceramics from the Museum of Pobo Galego (Galician people in the Galician language) which makes a good representation. The church of San Domingos de Bonaval holds custody of one of the most extraordinary lecterns in the region, which was used for the singing books in the liturgical celebrations and played a highlighted role in monastic orders and conceptions.
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