Cast Iron in Squares and Graveyards in XIX Century: Caracas and Valencia, among other cities
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Abstract
The considerations about materials and construction technologies are just one of the possible sights to approach architectural production in a historic time. On this sight, monuments and urban furniture on cemeteries in the nineteenth century are testimonies of production procedures related with most important public spaces on cities. Overcrowded parochial cemeteries and sanitary regulations supposed the foundation of a new urban form. That’s not only a sample of the artistic ideas based on historic and academic traditions, but the reproduction of monuments and the prefabrication of urban furniture. With cast iron fences and gravestones, prefabricated for city squares and cemeteries, there was urban furniture for dead and alive alike. It was made from industrial procedures and offered by catalogues from the first industrialized countries ironworks to all around the world. Valencia’s Municipal Cemetery (Venezuela) is a unsettled study case. Its conservation is an industrial archaeology issue that wold be part of the urban memory of the city and could contribute to explain its trade relationships trough its port to the world during the last decades of the Nineteenth Century.
Keywords
Cultural heritage – Venezuela, Cementerio Municipal de Valencia (Venezuela) – history, Urban furniture – Venezuela – 19th century, Cast iron - industry and commerce – Valencia (Venezuela) – 19th centuryPatrimonio cultural – Venezuela, Cementerio Municipal de Valencia (Venezuela) - Historia, Mobiliario urbano - Venezuela - Siglo XIX, Hierro fundido - Industria y comercio - Valencia (Venezuela) - Siglo XIX
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How to Cite
Silva Contreras, M. (2005). Cast Iron in Squares and Graveyards in XIX Century: Caracas and Valencia, among other cities. Apuntes: Revista De Estudios Sobre Patrimonio Cultural, 18(1-2). Retrieved from https://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/revApuntesArq/article/view/9058
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