Descubrimientos y exhibición de momias guanches en la primera mitad del siglo xix. Museos europeos (Montpellier, Göttingen, San Petesburgo, Ginebra) y gabinetes científicos insulares de Saviñón y Megliorini

The exhibition of two mummies in the Natural History cabinet in Paris aroused the interest of various scientific expeditions that made a stopover in Tenerife in the first half of the 19th century. Nicolas Baudin’s expedition in 1800 coincided with the discovery of a cave with mummies in El Sauzal and three ended up in the university museums of Montpellier and Göttingen and one in the cabinet of Saviñón. Another mummy was given to von Krusenstern’s Russian expedition of 1803, currently in the museum of Saint Petersburg. A new cave with mummies was discovered ca. 1815 in Tacoronte, which ended up in the scientific cabinet of Megliorini. Another mummy located in Valleseco, Santa Cruz, around 1823, was sold in Puerto de la Cruz to a Swiss merchant for the Geneva museum.

El motín de La Laguna de 1909 y sus implicaciones políticas

This work aims to provide some important insights about the riots that were experienced in the city of La Laguna (Tenerife) in 1909 and try to explain the reasons why it occurred and its oblivion. The results allow us to conclude that while the riots were not extremely serious, it were an unique social phenomenom and caused a controversy in the society at the time. This research looking for to help us to understand the mentality of the time and also to know the conflicts that existed inside the Catholic chuch of Western Canaries.

La verdadera historia de don Pedro Gonzales, el «hombre salvaje» de Tenerife que llegó a ser profesor de la Sorbona de París

"Don Pedro Gonzales, the “wild man,” as he was nicknamed by his contemporaries, suffered from hypertrichosis, a rare disease that caused uncontrollable growth of hair on his face and all over his body. Until now, truly little was known about his life, especially about his stay at the court of the kings of France. New documents found in French archives show that despite his illness, he not only managed to lead a normal life with his wife and children, but also became an influential member of his community and of the court."

El comercio de los esclavos canarios en Italia a finales del siglo xv

From the moment of the discovery, the Canary Islands have been the object of interest to Majorcans, Castilians and Portuguese, who saw in their inhabitants the opportunity to obtain slaves and make an easy profit. Thanks to the data collected by various authors and to new documents, the article reconstructs a synthetic picture of the Canarian slave trade in Spain and in Italy at the end of the 15th century. Special attention has been paid in their origin, destination, sex and age composition and in the structure of the sale price.

A la sombra del éxito. El pintor Antonio Sánchez González y su actividad en la iglesia madrileña del Salvador (1801-1804)

This paper deals with the works of the painter from Tenerife Antonio Sánchez González in the church of El Salvador in Madrid, where he made a new fresco decoration for the pendentives of the transept and designed the main altarpiece. In addition to recalling his carrer, the study analyzes the situation of the artist before the War of Independence (1808) and the lawsuit that these actions motivated in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, where they didn´t have the approval of the painters Gregorio Ferro and Mariano Salvador Maella or the architects Juan Pedro Arnal, Juan de Villanueva and Antonio López Aguado, among others

Aspectos de la vida burguesa en Santa Cruz de La Palma a mediados del siglo XIX. El abogado Antonio de las Casas López y su familia

On the island of La Palma, the surname De las Casas is an example of a bourgeoisie that has evolved, over three generations, from rustic and tenant farmers of the island’s oligarchy, in the second half of the 18th century, to urban, commercial and dedicated to the liberal professions in the 19th century. This article is based on the «Antonino Pestana Rodríguez» documentary collection (El Museo Canario) to study some aspects of the social and private life of the lawyer Antonio de las Casas López and his family in the mid-nineteenth century. The result is a behavior of the bourgeois characterized by the coexistence, in matters such as the path to marriage, social promotion and family honour, of modern mental attitudes together with other typical attitudes of the Old Regime society

El grabado del garoé en la colección de viajes de la firma de Bry (1590-1634

The Garoé or water tree on the island of El Hierro has been represented graphically on numerous occasions. Particularly important is the copper engraving published in the famous travel collection begun by Theodor de Bry in 1590, however, the great difficulty of tracing its different editions and variants has led to various errors and imprecisions in the literature. To clarify the situation, in this work I identify the two plates of the engraving used in the collection and determine up to nine plates produced by the firm from these two plates.

Para el sufragio y alivio de los hermanos sacerdotes difuntos. La confraternidad de san Pedro apóstol de La Laguna y su reflejo en Tenerife

The priest’s brotherhood are a link more inside the union institutions which appears during the Old Regimen (es nombre propio, también se puede poner en español pero me suena mejor en inglés en línea con el texto). Since the foundation of the first fellowship in Nuestra Señora de la Concepción in La Laguna’s chunch were born more ones by the different churches, in special in the north of Tenerife. The rules which followed them, Saint Tuesday’s workship in honor of Saint Peter’s tears and the heritage which developed are the main points of Thais article.

Las cenefas en los edificios de las Islas Canarias 1880-1935. El estilo de los arquitectos en las fachadas

The decoration of the Canarian facades has gone through numerous stages; Some with more ornamental elements than others, but at a certain moment the ornamentation reached an important level, when the eclectic and modernist languages were part of the fashion of the moment, limited in the proposed chronology. The area of the frieze lends itself perfectly to being decorated, as is known, since the oldest times, but these stripes can also occupy other areas of the façade as borders. The data collection of the buildings that incorporate this decoration and its treatment has materialized in a thesis that has served as the basis for this article, but in this case we are going to concentrate on the style of the architects.

La compra de sepulturas como manutención parroquial. La ermita de san Juan Bautista (Vallehermoso, La Gomera)

In this work we study three documents found in the parish fund of San Juan Bautista de Vallehermoso (La Gomera) concerning the measures taken after the pastoral visit of 1632 for the improvement of the chapel. The first one, deals with the extension of the temple and its new plant project. The second refers to the changes that the arrangements and the visiting mandates imply for the economic improvement of the temple. And the third, shows the presentation made by the owners of the graves to demonstrate their ownership, allowing the income of money to economically support the parish; and know the name, both those who appeared in the sketch of dates of burial of the temple as those who do not.