Manuel Gómez-Moreno

Manuel Gómez-Moreno, photograph from 1915

Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez (born February 21, 1870 in Granada , † June 7, 1970 in Madrid ) was a Spanish art historian , archaeologist and epigraphist .

Family and childhood

Portrait of Manuel Gómez-Moreno, painted by his father

Manuel Gómez-Moreno was born the son of the painter Manuel Gómez-Moreno González. His father was a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes (Royal Academy of Art) and as secretary of the Comisión Provincial de Monumentos (Monument Office of the Province of Granada) entrusted with archaeological research in the Province of Granada . At the age of eight, Manuel accompanied his father to Rome for two years , where he had received a scholarship at the Academia de España en Roma from 1878 to 1880 . On the way to Rome, Manuel Gómez-Moreno got to know Madrid, Saragossa , Barcelona and Marseille . He used the stay in Rome to learn Italian. Even then, he made drawings when visiting archaeological sites with his father. In Rome, Manuel Gómez-Moreno made the acquaintance of the archaeologists Orazio Marucchi and Giovanni Battista de Rossi , the founder of Christian archeology and early Christian epigraphy. On the way back to Granada, he traveled with his father to Pompeii , Herculaneum , Naples and other Italian cities.

career

In 1886 Manuel Gómez-Moreno began studying for a degree at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Granada , which he graduated in 1889. He took Arabic lessons from Francisco Javier Simonet . During his studies he was next to Aureliano Fernández-Guerra (1816-1894) one of the employees of Emil Huebner , who made three trips to Spain and dealt with Latin inscriptions on the Iberian peninsula . The results of this research were published in 1992 as a supplement to the Inscriptiones Hispaniae Latinae . In 1888, together with his father, he published an investigation into the excavations of Medina Elvira near Atarfe . He also worked with his father on the Guide of Granada ( Guía de Granada ) published in 1892 .

From 1890 to 1905 Manuel Gómez-Moreno taught Biblical Archeology at the Sacro-Monte Seminary in Granada. In the years 1895 to 1897 he made trips to Almería , Málaga , Córdoba , Seville and Jaén , where he visited monuments and archaeological sites and dealt with inscriptions.

In 1900 he was commissioned by Ávila to create a catalog of monuments ( Catálogo Monumental ) . This was followed by catalogs on Segovia , Salamanca and León . He was particularly interested in the Celtiberian settlements of Cogotas (near Cardeñosa ), Castro de Ulaca (near Villaviciosa ), Yecla de Yeltes , Las Merchanas (near Lumbrales ), Irueña (near Fuenteguinaldo ) and Hinojosa de Duero . Another focus of his research were the pre-Romanesque churches in the province of Zamora , in particular the church of San Pedro de la Nave . He dedicated his doctoral thesis, published in 1919, to the Mozarabic churches of the Iberian Peninsula.

In 1909 Manuel Gómez-Moreno settled in Madrid. In 1913 he received at the Universidad Central, which was later renamed Universidad Complutense de Madrid , the chair of Arabic archeology, which he gave up in 1934 because of differences of opinion with the then dean Manuel García Morente.

In 1910, under the Minister of Education and Culture, Álvaro Figueroa Torres, the Centro de Estudios Históricos (Center for Historical Studies) was founded and Manuel Gómez-Moreno was appointed director of the Department of Archeology and Medieval Art . In 1925 he founded the journal Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueología , of which he was co-editor.

In the 1920s Gómez-Moreno extended his study trips to France, Argentina, Uruguay and Morocco. In Portugal he met the linguist and ethnographer José Leite de Vasconcelos , the founder and director of the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia in Lisbon. In 1933 he went on a Mediterranean cruise with students and professors from various universities from the fields of history and architecture, on which they visited Tunisia, Egypt, Jerusalem , Smyrna , Malta , Greece and the islands of Crete and Rhodes as well as Sicily and Mallorca .

Lead sheet from Alcoy with Iberian script

Manuel Gómez-Moreno was particularly concerned with numismatics and epigraphy and devoted himself to researching pre-Roman languages ​​and scripts on the Iberian Peninsula. In 1922 he published a treatise on the Iberian inscription on a lead sheet discovered at Alcoy . In the same year he succeeded in deciphering the north-east Iberian script .

It is certainly thanks to Manuel Gómez-Moreno, who rediscovered many forgotten architectural monuments in Spain and included them in his monument catalogs, that they were saved from final decay and demolition.

Awards

• 1915: Admission to the Real Academia de la Historia at the suggestion of the epigraphist and philologist Fidel Fita
• 1931: Admission to the Real Academia de Bellas Artes
• 1941: Honorary doctorates from the Universities of Montevideo and Oxford
• 1942: Awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise
• 1942: Admission to the Real Academia Española
• 1951: Honorary Doctorate from the University of Glasgow
• 1956: Fundación March Prize for History
• 1970: Honorary Doctorate from the University of Granada
• Honorary President of the Instituto Diego Velázquez de Arte y Arqueología

Works (selection)

• Medina Elvira . With Manuel Gómez-Moreno González. Imprenta de la Lealtad, Granada 1888
• Monumentos romanos y visigóticos de Granada . Imprenta de la Lealtad, Granada 1889
• Guía de Granada . With Manuel Gómez-Moreno González, Madrid 1892
• El arte de grabar in Granada . Madrid 1900
• Arquitectura tartesia. La Necrópolis de Antequera . 1905
• Granada y su provincia . In the Monumentos arquitectónicos de España series. Madrid 1907
• Alhambra . With 48 illustrations by Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez. In the El arte en España series . Ed. Comisaría Regia del Turismo y Cultura Artística, Barcelona 1911
• Iglesias Mozárabes. Arte español de los siglos IX a XI . Madrid 1919
• De Epigrafia ibérica: El plomo de Alcoy . In: Revista de Filología Española. Volume 9, Madrid 1922
• Cerámica Medieval española . Fidel Giró, Barcelona 1924
• Sobre los iberos y su lengua . In: Homenaje a Menéndez Pidal. Volume III. Imprenta de la Libreria y Casa Editorial Hernando, Madrid 1925
• Provincia de León (1906-1908) . In the Catálogo Monumental de España series . Published by Ministerio de Instrucción Pública y Bellas Artes, Madrid 1925
• Alonso Cano, escultor . In: Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueologia. No. VI, Madrid 1926
• Provincia de Zamora (1903-1905) . In the Catálogo Monumental de España series . Published by Ministerio de Instrucción Pública y Bellas Artes, Madrid 1927
• Obras de Miguel Angel en España . Madrid 1930
• La escultura del Renacimiento en España . Editorial Firenze, Barcelona 1931
• A propósito de Simón de Colonia en Valladolid . In: Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueologia. Madrid 1934
• El arte románico español: Esquema de un libro . Madrid 1934
• Valladolid . With 48 illustrations. In the El arte en España series. Volume 18. Ed. Patronato Nacional del Turismo, Barcelona 1940
• Las águilas del Renacimiento Español: Bartolomé Ordóñez. Diego Silóee. Pedro Machuca. Alonso Berruguete. 1517-1558 . Madrid 1941
• El Greco, (Dominico Theotocopuli) . Barcelona 1943
• La mezquita mayor de Tudela . Edited by Institución Príncipe de Viana, Pamplona 1945
• Historia y arte en el Panteón de las Huelgas de Burgos . Edited by Instituto Diego Velázquez. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid 1947
• La escritura ibérica y su lenguaje . Madrid 1948
• Misceláneas. Historia, arte, arqueología ... . Silverio Aguirre, Madrid 1949
• Diego de Pesquera, escultor . Madrid 1955
• El barroco granadino . Edited by Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid 1956
• Adan y la Prehistoria . Madrid 1958
• La escritura bástulo-turdetana (primitiva hispánica) . Artes Gráficas Clavileño, Madrid 1962
• Diego Siloe: Homenaje en el IV centenario de su muerte . In the Cuadernos de arte y literatura series of the University of Granada, Granada 1963
• Documentación goda en pizarra . Madrid 1966
• Provincia de Salamanca . In the Catálogo Monumental de España series . Ed. Servicio Nacional de Información Artística, Madrid 1967

literature

• Jesús Bermúdez Pareja, María Elena Gómez-Moreno: Bibliografía de don Manuel Gómez Moreno. Homenaje el centenario de su nacimiento . Madrid 1970 (not evaluated)
• María Elena Gómez-Moreno: Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez . Ed. Fundación Ramón Areces, Madrid 1995, ISBN 84-8004-154-4 (not evaluated)

Web links

Commons : Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Anticuarios y Epigrafistas. Siglo XIX en adelante. Manuel Gómez-Moreno Universidad de Alcalá (accessed June 4, 2013, Spanish)
• Manuel Gómez-Moreno Andalucía Documentos y Narraciones (accessed June 4, 2013, Spanish)
• Literature by and about Manuel Gómez-Moreno in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Necrología obituary by Eduardo Saavedra. In: Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia . Madrid 1901, pp. 413–419 (accessed June 4, 2013, Spanish)
2. ^ Emil Huebner: Inscriptiones Hispaniae Latinae . Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum , Volume 2, Reimer, Berlin 1869. Reprinted by de Gruyter, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-11-003187-6
3. ↑ Manuel Gómez-Moreno: Iglesias Mozárabes. Arte español de los siglos IX a XI. Madrid 1919 (Retrieved June 4, 2013, Spanish)
4. ^ Javier de Hoz: Writing and coins . In: The Iberians (exhibition catalog). Ed. Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Hirmer Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7774-7710-9 , p. 208.
5. ↑ Gómez-Moreno y Martínez, Manuel ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Real Academia de la Historia (accessed June 4, 2013, Spanish)