| "invisible, Portugal seen by French photographers' | | | | | | |
Two hundred years ago, the North lived a start the invasion of Soult. But it is the law of war and peace that the occupiers leave behind traces of their own culture and other changes in the future more free. In the country, it would take his army with the Wellington crossed the Pyrenees, another revolution of lawyers were already underway.
Therefore, this series of exhibitions celebrates not only the local victories and miseries of the empire Napoleon but, above all, the cultural effects of successive awards.
Peninsula, responding with an unexpected violence at the Jacobin army, then earned his stamp of exoticism and barbarism - the temerity of the outlaws will echo in opera librettos, in nineteenth-century novel and the representation of their inhabitants. The mid-nineteenth century, the homeland of Empecinado and General Silveira was visited by the photographic missions with the same look of discovery that took photographers to Morocco or Egypt.
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