Resumen

CONTRERAS VARGAS, Jannen. An Eagle and a Quiver that Have Highly Offended the Mexican Nation. Intervención (Méx. DF) [online]. 2023, vol.14, n.28, pp.38-87.  Epub 11-Jun-2024. ISSN 2007-249X.  https://doi.org/10.30763/intervencion.286.v2n28.65.2023.

It is said that elements of the sculpture El Caballito by the sculptor and architect Manuel Tolsá-a quiver, under one of the horse's hooves, and an eagle, which was supposedly chiseled out-symbolize great offence to the Mexican nation. My paper’s proposal, based on information obtained during the conservational work and through the analysis of technological choices and of chaînes opératoires and behavioral chains, is that the eagle was not part of the original sculpture, but rather integrated as an external intervention during a short time, and that the quiver, in the neoclassical context, aims to depict the king as the ideal of a good Apollonian ruler, not as one who humiliates the people he rules.

Palabras llave : Tolsá; El Caballito; quiver; eagle; interpretation.