Artero González, Juan de la Gloria (sold)
Juan de la Gloria Artero González (September 30, 1834 - January 19, 1903) was a Spanish geographer and historian. Born in Bullas, near Murcia, in southeastern Spain, he excelled in his studies and went to Madrid, where he earned a bachelor's and then a doctorate. He then became a professor and chair of the department of historical geography at the Universidad de Granada. While there he published a range of both introductory and comprehensive works on history and geography. Late in his career, he became the Dean of Philosophy and Letters at the Universitat de Barcelona before encountering health problems and retiring.
Commemorating, mythologizing, and critiquing Columbus.
Descubrimiento de América.
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This is a rare and symbolically complex c. 1892 map of the Caribbean, produced by the Spanish geographer Juan de la Gloria Artero González to commemorate the quatercentenary (400-year anniversary) of Christopher Columbus' landing in the New World. Though broadly celebratory, Artero also highlights some of the more controversial aspects of Columbus' actions in the Americas, while maintaining the importance of the voyages as a hallmark event in the history of the Spanish nation. (more details)