propaganda poster, Partido Sindicalista iobreros! ESTE ES VUESTRO PORVENIR, SI TRIUNFA EL FASCISMO
Report a Mistake- Object Number 20010129-0728
- Event 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War
- Affiliation --
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Artist / Maker / Manufacturer
Ortega Valencia
Monléon - Date Made 1936-1937
- Place of Use Continent - Europe, Country - Spain
- Category Communication artifacts
- Sub-category Advertising medium
- Department Art and Memorials
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1936/01/01
- Latest 1937/12/31
- Inscription PARTIDO SINDICALISTA Monléon iobreros! ESTE ES VUESTRO PPORVENIR, SI TRIUNFA EL FASCISMO; ORTEGA, Valencia-Intervinido U.G.T.-C..T.
- Medium ink
- Support paper
- Materials Not applicable
- Measurements Height 161.5 cm, Width 108.0 cm
- Caption Partido Sindicalista iobreros! Este Es Vuestro Porvenir, Si Triunfa El Fascismo
- Additional Information This poster which was issued by the Popular Front Government between late 1936 and late 1937 has an interesting relationship with Spanish art and history. Philip II of Spain adopted St. Lawrence as his patron saint and, as an act of homage, commissioned a palace-monastery, the Escorial, to be built in the shape of a gridiron, the instrument of the saint's martyrdom. Philip also commissioned Titian to execute a painting of St. Lawrence's martyrdom for the Escorial. After its arrival in 1572, several other paintings of this subject were commissioned from Spanish artists and placed in various alter-pieces of the Escorial. These later paintings fellow the iconography of Titian's St. Lawrence which became the Spanish prototype throughout the Baroque period. The illustration on this poster follows Titian with only minor variations: the executioners and the fire beneath the gridiron have been eliminated. It is interesting to not that the year 1574 witnessed the first use of auto-da-fé (execution by burning) by the Spanish Inquisition as a punishment for heresy. The poster would in effect bring to the viewer's mind religious martyrdoms as well as tales of the Spanish Inquisition. It must therefore have had great effect on Spaniards who would not fail to comprehend immediately the full gravity of their fate should they lose the war.