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Spanish term or phrase:
sala de linaje
English translation:
hall of ancestors
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Charles Davis
Mar 26, 2018 21:26
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This is from a text about a contemporary artist from Argentina:
La variedad inclasificable de la serie la dispersa, pero la pintura gestual, los marcos de madera y las identificaciones codificadas le dan un extraño “aire de familia”. Reducción al absurdo de las “salas de linaje” del siglo XVIII y sus galerías genealógicas de retratos, el conjunto compone y descompone una historia familiar que mezcla géneros y estilos, clasicismo y cultura de masas, estilemas pictóricos realistas, hiperrealistas y surrealistas.
I found nothing pertinent on google.
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La variedad inclasificable de la serie la dispersa, pero la pintura gestual, los marcos de madera y las identificaciones codificadas le dan un extraño “aire de familia”. Reducción al absurdo de las “salas de linaje” del siglo XVIII y sus galerías genealógicas de retratos, el conjunto compone y descompone una historia familiar que mezcla géneros y estilos, clasicismo y cultura de masas, estilemas pictóricos realistas, hiperrealistas y surrealistas.
I found nothing pertinent on google.
Thanks
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These things are quite often called ancestral portrait galleries or sometimes dynastic portrait galleries; if you google these terms you'll find eighteenth-century examples; for example here, in relation to the Darcy family in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice:
"The ancestral portrait gallery was clearly an ostentatious display of lineage."
http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol34no1/nigro.html
However, I think this version may cause you problems, because just afterwards you've got to translate "sus galerías genealógicas de retratos", and it'll just repeat itself. So I think "hall of ancestors" could be used:
"The great spectacle was the Fischer von Erlach Hall of Ancestors, a massive oval room frescoed and stuccoed with over-life-size statues of the family's ancestors"
https://books.google.es/books?id=P-ccDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT74&lpg=PT...
"An extravagant entrance to the chateau was constructed together with a theatre and a “Hall of Ancestors”, decorated with murals featuring portraits of significant family members."
http://www.discoverbaroqueart.org/database_item.php?id=monum...
"The ancestral portrait gallery was clearly an ostentatious display of lineage."
http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol34no1/nigro.html
However, I think this version may cause you problems, because just afterwards you've got to translate "sus galerías genealógicas de retratos", and it'll just repeat itself. So I think "hall of ancestors" could be used:
"The great spectacle was the Fischer von Erlach Hall of Ancestors, a massive oval room frescoed and stuccoed with over-life-size statues of the family's ancestors"
https://books.google.es/books?id=P-ccDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT74&lpg=PT...
"An extravagant entrance to the chateau was constructed together with a theatre and a “Hall of Ancestors”, decorated with murals featuring portraits of significant family members."
http://www.discoverbaroqueart.org/database_item.php?id=monum...
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