{"id":149,"date":"2008-03-02T13:47:04","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T15:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2008-03-02T13:47:04","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T15:47:04","slug":"pintoresco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"140. pintoresco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Burgue\u00f1o, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200801E29.jpg\" alt=\"Burgue\u00f1o, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">At the end of the 1700s &amp; the beginning of the 1800s, the world was so chaotic that many people looked for either stability or a new style to mark the new era. The Americas were claiming independence, Europe was ravaged by Napoleon, &amp; no one knew what would happen next. The standard answer was to look to the past for comfort. Neogothic &amp; Neoclassical styles sought to recall more orderly times. Another answer was to mix old with new&#8230; romantic &amp; exotic ideas were combined with nature images &amp; the <em>pintoresco<\/em> style was born.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Early burials in Recoleta Cemetery happened at the same time, so a few vaults were built in the <em>pintoresco<\/em> style. The certainly stand out. For example, the above photo is of the <strong>Burgue\u00f1o<\/strong> vault dated 1879. One of the best is the <strong>Arcave y Oyarvide<\/strong> vault below. Cement is sculpted like rocks, the cross is made to look like roots from a dead tree, &amp; the base of the vault even includes barrel planters:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Arcave y Oyarvide, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200711C30.jpg\" alt=\"Arcave y Oyarvide, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Arcave y Oyarvide, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200711C28.jpg\" alt=\"Arcave y Oyarvide, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Arcave y Oyarvide, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200711C29.jpg\" alt=\"Arcave y Oyarvide, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Gregorio Torres<\/strong> went one step further &amp; built his tomb to mimic a grotto&#8230; both inside &amp; out. An interesting aside is that the more these tombs sit without regular care, the more plant life sprouts in the warm &amp; humid climate of Buenos Aires. What might be considered damage in other tombs can actually be considered a step toward the style&#8217;s ideal:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Gregorio Torres, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200801G37.jpg\" alt=\"Gregorio Torres, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Gregorio Torres, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200801G36.jpg\" alt=\"Gregorio Torres, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of the 1700s &amp; the beginning of the 1800s, the world was so chaotic that many people looked for either stability or&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=149\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">140. pintoresco<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-architecture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}