Resumen

ZIEGLER DELGADO, María Magdalena. Juan Lovera, painter from Caracas: Among masons you wil meet him. Tiempo y Espacio [online]. 2017, vol.27, n.68, pp.11-34. ISSN 1315-9496.

The works of Juan Lovera (1776-1841), a Caracas painter whose life goes between the 17th and 19th centuries, especially the two related to the founding ephemeris of the Venezuelan nation, are well known and commonly reproduced in school textbooks, history books, posters, etc. We refer to El tumulto del 19 de Abril de 1810 (1835) and Firma del Acta de Independencia el 5 de Julio de 1811 (1838). However, these two paintings have a very rich meaning that goes beyond what they represent for the uninvited viewer. The verification of the incorporation of Lovera to the masonic lodges of Caracas from the decade of 1820, gives us the opportunity to trace the symbolic meaning of these works in Masonic code. Thus, the degree of instruction of Lovera becomes evident and also how he configured in the referred works a message close to the ideas that usually were discussed in the masonic lodges of that time.

Palabras clave : masonry; Juan Lovera; painting; art; venezuelan art.

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