"Vivir el pasado": imaginación mito-poética en las casas-museo de El Greco y Cervantes

Abstract

During the Nineteenth-Century "Living the Past" became a constant intellectual and political endeavour. The aim of this article is to analyze how a certain historical mindedness was projected upon some heritage spaces: the house-museums of Cervantes and El Greco, at the beginning of the 20th Century. The mythopoetic reconstruction of both spaces along with its institutional direction through the Comisaria Regia de Turismo, articulate a conscious desire of creating a precise National Identity though the staging of the past.