Manuel Gómez-Moreno

Manuel Gómez- Moreno Martínez ( born February 21, 1870 in Granada, † June 7, 1970 in Madrid) was a Spanish art historian, archaeologist and epigraphists.

Family and Childhood

Manuel Gómez- Moreno was born as the son of the painter Manuel Gómez- Moreno González. His father was in charge of archaeological research in the province of Granada member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes ( Royal Academy of Art ) and as secretary of the Comisión Provincial de Monumentos ( Monuments Office of the province of Granada). At the age of eight years, Manuel accompanied his father from 1879 to 1880 to Rome, where he had received a two-year scholarship at the Real Academia Española. On the way to Rome learned Manuel Gómez- Moreno Madrid, Zaragoza, Barcelona and Marseille know. The stay in Rome, he used to learn Italian. Even then, he made drawings when he visited archaeological sites with his father. In Rome, the boy he made acquaintance with the archaeologist Orazio Marucchi and Giovanni Battista de Rossi, the founder of Christian Archaeology and the early Christian epigraphy. On the way back to Granada traveled to Manuel Gómez- Moreno Pompeii, Herculaneum, Naples and other Italian cities.

Career

1886 Manuel Gómez- Moreno began a Lizenziatsstudium at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Granada, which he completed in 1889. For Francisco Javier Simonet he took Arabic lessons. Already during his studies he was next to Aureliano Fernández- Guerra (1816-1894) one of the employees of Emil Hübner, who made three trips to Spain and dealt with Latin inscriptions of the Iberian Peninsula. The results of this research were published in 1992, as a supplement to the Inscriptiones Hispaniae Latinae. Together with his father he published in 1888 a study on the ruins of Medina Elvira in Atarfe. Also in the 1892 published guide of Granada ( Guía de Granada), he worked with his father.

From 1890 to 1905 taught Manuel Gómez- Moreno Biblical Archaeology at the seminary Sacro Monte in Granada. In the years 1895-1897 he traveled to Almeria, Malaga, Cordoba, Seville and Jaén, where he visited monuments and archaeological sites and dealt with inscriptions.

In 1900 he was commissioned to create a monument Catalogue ( Catálogo Monumental) of Ávila. This was followed by catalogs to Segovia, Salamanca and León. His particular interest was the Celtiberian settlements Cogotas ( at Cardeñosa ), Castro de Ulaca ( in Villaviciosa), Yecla de Yeltes, Las Merchanas ( at Lumbrales ) Irueña ( at Fuenteguinaldo ) and Hinojosa de Duero. Another focus of his research were the pre-Romanesque churches in the province of Zamora, in particular the San Pedro de la Nave Church. His doctoral thesis, which was published in 1919, he dedicated the Mozarabic churches of the Iberian Peninsula.

1909 settled Manuel Gómez- Moreno in Madrid. In 1913 he received at the Universidad Central, which was later renamed the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the chair of Arabic archeology, which he abandoned in 1934 because of disagreements with the then Dean Manuel García Morent.

In 1910, the Education and Culture Minister Álvaro Figueroa Torres, Centro de Estudios Historical (Center for Historical Studies ) was founded and Manuel Gómez- Moreno was appointed director of the Department of Archaeology and Art of the Middle Ages. In 1925 he founded the journal Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueología which he was co-editor.

In the 1920s, Gómez- Moreno extended his study trips to France, Argentina, Uruguay and Morocco. In Portugal, he met the linguist and ethnographer Leite de Vasconcelos know, the founder and director of the Museu Nacional de Archeology in Lisbon. In 1933 he undertook with students and professors from different universities in the fields of history and architecture of a Mediterranean cruise on which they, Egypt, Jerusalem, Smyrna, Malta, Greece and the islands of Crete and Rhodes and Sicily and Mallorca visited Tunisia.

Especially Manuel Gómez- Moreno dealt with the numismatics and epigraphy and devoted himself to the study of pre-Roman languages ​​and scripts on the Iberian Peninsula. In 1922 he published a treatise on the Iberian inscription on a lead sheet discovered in Alcoy. In the same year he succeeded in deciphering the nordostiberischen font.

Manuel Gómez- Moreno, who rediscovered and recorded many forgotten monuments in Spain in his monument catalogs, it is certainly due to that they have been saved from the final decay and demolition.

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Medina Elvira. With Manuel Gómez- Moreno González. Imprenta de la Lealtad, Granada 1888
  • Monumentos romanos y visigóticos de Granada. Imprenta de la Lealtad, Granada 1889
  • Guía de Granada. With Manuel Gómez- Moreno González, Madrid 1892
  • El arte de grabar in Granada. Madrid 1900
  • Arquitectura tartesia. La Necropolis de Antequera. 1905
  • Granada y su provincia. In the series Monumentos arquitectónicos de España. Madrid 1907
  • Alhambra. With 48 illustrations by Manuel Gómez- Moreno Martínez. In the series El arte de España. Edited Comisaría Regia del Turismo y Cultura Artística, Barcelona 1911
  • Iglesias Mozárabes. Arte español de los siglos IX a XI. Madrid 1919
  • De Epigrafia ibérica: El plomo de Alcoy. In: Revista Española de Filología. Volume 9, Madrid 1922
  • Ceramica Medieval española. Fidel Giró, Barcelona 1924
  • Sobre los iberos y su lengua. In: Homenaje a Menendez Pidal. Volume III. Imprenta de la Libreria y Casa Editorial Hernando, Madrid 1925
  • Provincia de León ( 1906-1908 ). In the series Catálogo Monumental de España. Edited by Ministerio de Instrucción Pública y Bellas Artes, Madrid 1925
  • Alonso Cano, escultor. In: Archivo Español de Arte y Archeology. No. VI, Madrid 1926
  • Provincia de Zamora ( 1903-1905 ). In the series Catálogo Monumental de España. Edited by Ministerio de Instrucción Pública y Bellas Artes, Madrid 1927
  • Obras de Miguel Angel de España. Madrid 1930
  • La escultura del Renacimiento en España. Editorial Firenze, Barcelona 1931
  • A propósito de Simón de Colonia de Valladolid. In: Archivo Español de Arte y Archeology. Madrid 1934
  • El arte español románico: Esquema de un libro. Madrid 1934
  • Valladolid. With 48 illustrations. In the series El arte de España. Volume 18 Edited Patronato Nacional del Turismo, Barcelona 1940
  • Las águilas del Renacimiento Español: Bartolomé Ordóñez. Diego Silóee. Pedro Machuca. Alonso Berruguete. From 1517 to 1558. Madrid 1941
  • El Greco, ( Dominico Theotocopuli ). Barcelona 1943
  • La Mezquita mayor de Tudela. Edited Institución Príncipe de Viana, Pamplona 1945
  • Historia y Arte en el Panteon de las Huelgas de Burgos. Edited Instituto Diego Velázquez. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid 1947
  • La escritura ibérica y su lenguaje. Madrid 1948
  • Misceláneas. Historia, arte, Arqueología .... Silverio Aguirre, Madrid 1949
  • Diego de Pesquera, escultor. Madrid 1955
  • El barroco granadino. Edited by Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid 1956
  • Adán y la Prehistory. Madrid 1958
  • La escritura bástulo - turdetana ( primitiva hispanica). Artes Gráficas Clavileño, Madrid 1962
  • Diego Siloe: Homenaje en el IV centenario de su muerte. In the series Cuadernos de arte y literatura the University of Granada, Granada 1963
  • Documentación de goda pizarra. Madrid 1966
  • Provincia de Salamanca. In the series Catálogo Monumental de España. Edited by Servicio Nacional de Información Artística, Madrid 1967
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