{"id":6879,"date":"2026-07-22T13:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/2026\/07\/22\/revista-historia-canaria-numero-208\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T13:24:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:24:43","slug":"revista-historia-canaria-numero-208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/2026\/07\/22\/revista-historia-canaria-numero-208\/","title":{"rendered":"The ULL's Journal of Canarian History publishes its 208th issue with nine articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>He Publications Department<\/a> The University of La Laguna has recently published the number 208<\/a> From the Revista de Historia Canaria, one of the institution's longest-running periodicals, published under that name since 1957 and heir to the Revista de Historia founded in 1924. It is currently coordinated by the Department of Geography and History and the Department of Art History and Philosophy, and its most recent issue, fully accessible online, includes nine varied articles on diverse topics.<\/p>\n

The volume opens with a work by Virginia Ben\u00edtez Mart\u00edn entitled \u201cClassical architectural elements as a guiding thread of the cultured architecture of La Laguna. 16th to 19th centuries\u201d, a work that pays special attention to certain architectural elements related to the classical ideal that can be found in some facades of the city such as the Casa del Corregidor, the Casa Salazar, the Palacio de Nava and the Cathedral of La Laguna itself, among others.<\/p>\n

Pablo Jerez Sabater, from the Manolo Blahnik School of Art in La Palma, details in \u201cAn Island Rarely Visited: La Gomera as Explored by Olivia Stone\u201d the presence of this island in the British author's work \u201cTenerife and Its Six Satellites\u201d (1887), one of the most comprehensive accounts of the archipelago in the 19th century. The journey through San Sebasti\u00e1n, Hermigua, Agulo, Vallehermoso, and the heights of Chipude allows for the reconstruction of a rich image of the island that blends everyday life, hydraulic engineering, and vernacular architecture.<\/p>\n

In \u201cThe Universal Engineer Agust\u00edn de Betancourt through the Memoirs of his Secretary Filipp Vigel between 1816-1818\u201d, the researcher from the University of Deusto, Mar\u00eda Jes\u00fas Pozas, vindicates, from a historical critical perspective, the figure of Agust\u00edn de Betancourt and that of his family against the biting and caustic opinion of Filipp Vigel, which borders on disqualifications and gossip; in addition to showing documentary evidence of the lies of the architect Auguste de Montferrand, who attributed to himself the authorship of works by the Canary Islands engineer.<\/p>\n

Alberto Quartapelle presents \u201cEnvironment, society and power in the Pre-Hispanic Canary Islands: three models of cultural adaptation to island ecology\u201d, an article in which he explains, through a comparison between El Hierro, Gran Canaria and Tenerife, how variations in resources, demography and territorial morphology generated divergent social models: the egalitarian cooperation of El Hierro, the redistributive and protostatal hierarchy of Gran Canaria and the competitive genealogical segmentation of Tenerife.<\/p>\n

Next, Andrea Rivero P\u00e9rez and Mar\u00eda de los Reyes Hern\u00e1ndez Socorro, from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, present \u201cStill Lifes in Canarian Painting during the 20th Century: Notes for a State of the Art,\u201d the central theme of their doctoral thesis. It proposes a comparative overview of artists such as Tom\u00e1s G\u00f3mez Bosch, Eva Fern\u00e1ndez, Lola Massieu, Carlos Chevilly, C\u00e9sar Manrique, and Pepa Izquierdo.<\/p>\n

The following article is \u201cThe Evolution of Local Government in Gran Canaria: From Royal Jurisdictions to Municipal Constitutionalism (18th-20th Centuries),\u201d authored by Pablo Rivero P\u00e9rez of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. This work analyzes the evolution of the island's political and territorial map from the conquest to the establishment of the contemporary municipal model, emphasizing the role of the Island Council (Cabildo-Isla) as the sole jurisdictional body and the gradual emergence of autonomous population centers.<\/p>\n

Pablo Rivero P\u00e9rez and Jos\u00e9 Concepci\u00f3n Rodr\u00edguez, from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, are the co-authors of \u201cArt and patronage in the chapel of San Nicol\u00e1s de Bari: the canon Manuel Alv\u00e1rez de Castro in the 18th century\u201d, an article focused on this place of worship located in the town of Arucas (Gran Canaria), within a rural context marked by economic problems and natural difficulties.<\/p>\n

Sacred art continues to be featured in this issue of the journal with the article \u201cOn the niche of the Virgin of the Rosary of La Orotava: Historical data and hypotheses about its authorship,\u201d by Jes\u00fas Rodr\u00edguez Bravo, a researcher at the Institute of Canarian Studies. The article analyzes the historical, devotional, and artistic context of this work, reconstructs its material and symbolic history, and explains the mechanisms of heritage reuse that allowed for its preservation.<\/p>\n

The final article in the volume addresses the digital and physical reconstruction of the trachyte cross in the Traslarena cemetery (Tenerife), a piece of great historical value linked to the 1893 cholera epidemic. Its severe deterioration has necessitated the preservation of the original inside the chapel and its replacement with a high-fidelity replica outside. The authors are D\u00e1cil Ventura Gonz\u00e1lez and Alejandro Hern\u00e1ndez P\u00e9rez (University of La Laguna); Adolfo R. Padr\u00f3n Rodr\u00edguez (Diocesan Delegation of Cultural Heritage); and Eduardo Cruz Delgado (Iscan Note SL).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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