Alexander de Humboldt influence in two venezuelan artists at Nineteenth Century

Abstract

Throughout century XIX in the Latin American painting several new subjects are introduced, among them the landscape, no longer more like scene of patriotic, religious or costumbristas scenes. The model propose by Alexander de Humboldt in its book Vue de cordillères et monuments des peuples indigènes de l’Amérique, of 1810, for the scientific study of the landscape, is going to be followed not only by artists German, but by nationals like Car it to me the Fernandez Páez and Ramon Bolet Peraza who will approach modestly in their work to the watercolor and the weather. First in its character of illustrator of the geographic work of Agustín Codazzi, as much in Venezuela as in Colombia, the second when taking care of requests of foreign retailers but also by their participation in scientific expeditions. The study of these two nineteenth-century, devoid artists of a properly academic formation, does not open a possibility of valuation for other artists who did not get to compete in European Halls and were either in its time very solicited like retratists.