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sculpture during the colonial era by Hadazul Cruz

There were many sculptors in Santiago de Guatemala, some of them recognized, and others who preferred anonymity.

Sculpture in the New World traditionally had two purposes, aesthetic and to serve the new religion as an instrument of evangelization. ...read more 66 Amalia’s Kitchen Amalia Moreno-Damgaard LENT SMØRREBROD Every year many Christians observe special diets during 40 days. As I listened to the priest’s sermon one recent morning at church, I thought to myself that the Lenten season is also an opportunity to explore foods outside the normal realm of traditional choices. ...read more 88

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12 13 From the Publishers hese are very difficult days we are all dealing with. Our hearts go out to the medical and service personnel for perservering in their important work, and hope Teveryone who can be, is sheltering in place when possible. This month, we would like to offer information about changes our advertisers’ have made regarding their hours of business, service offerings and online availability. If you want to know more about a specific business, you can call or click to their website. Many restaurants offer delivery/pickup orders, some companies are continuing services via Zoom or Face Time, and art galleries and others can give their viewers online virtual tours. Some business, unfortunately, are closed for the time being.

In this issue, we pay a Tribute to Semana Santa through photographs of past celebra- tions. Thanks to the marvelous photographers who shared their images. Hadazul Cruz presents Sculpture during the Colonial Era, a period when several notable and talented sculptors emerged, leaving behind incredible works of art that are still marveled at today. Chef and author Amalia Moreno-Damgaard thinks that the Lenten season is also an opportunity to explore foods outside the normal realm of traditional choices. She proves her point with a delicious recipe for the Danish dish Smorrebrod. We pay our respects to the Municpal Fire Department of La Antigua Guatemala with a historical summary, highlighting the excellent support given by the Rotary Club Gua- temala Sur.

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culpture in the New World tradi- ed in abundance in the New World. Cedar tionally had two purposes, aesthetic was both durable and easy to work with, and to serve the new religion as an making it ideal, followed by other materi- Sinstrument of evangelization. als such as stone, silver, and alabaster. Sculptors did not compete for the beauty The growing city of Santiago de los Ca- of their works. They labored to satisfy the balleros de Guatemala (today La Antigua demand within the population. Perfection Guatemala) required a large number of was essential because every sculpture had sculptural pieces to fill the temples, civil to fulfill a spiritual and, at the same time, buildings, and private residences. There- educational. fore, sculptors fulfilled this purpose and considered and respectable. In the case of colonial sculpture, the primary material used was wood, which exist-

23 Jesús Nazareno de La Merced Antigua Guatemala by Aldo Comparini

24 Jesús Nazareno de La Merced Antigua Guatemala by Marco Antonio Marinelli

Notable Sculptors There were many sculptors in Santiago de Guatemala, some of them recognized, and others who preferred anonymity.

Alonzo de la Paz He enjoyed fame, along with many received commissions. His work is acclaimed in history for his abilities, notably the beautiful image of Jesus Nazareno de la Merced in La Antigua Guatemala.

25 Jesús Nazareno de Candelaria, Cristo Rey facebook.com/infoCandelaria

Juan de Aguirre

He was a Franciscan friar and also a sculptor. He arrived in Santiago de Guatemala from Peru but was probably of Spanish origin. Around 1558 he created the Virgen del Coro along with the image of Jesús Nazareno de Candelaria, but this is not verified.

26 Jesús de los afligidos, Andalusia Jesús Nazareno de la Merced, Guatemala City

Jesús Nazareno de la Merced, believed to have a twin sculpture in Andalusia. El Señor de los Afligidos.

Mateo de Zúñiga

One of his documented sculptures is Jesus Nazareno de la Merced (1654) poly- chromed by Joseph de la Cerda, currently in Guatemala City. This sculpture is the first Baroque work made in Guatemala, and also the first Nazarene believed to have a twin sculpture in Andalusia. El Señor de los Afligidos would prove the sculptural ex- change between the old and the new world at that time. Jesús Nazareno de la Merced, Guatemala City 27 28 Soledad from Escuela de Cristo by Jose Carlos Flores

Pedro de Mendoza or Pedro de la Rosa

He lived and worked in Santiago de Guate- mala and mentioned by the religious Fray An- tonio de Molina in his work Memories of Fray Antonio de Molina where he exposes a dialogue between the sculptor Mendoza and the Holy Hermano Pedro (Guatemala’s saint). Though not verified, it is believed that Pedro de Mendo- za sculpted the image of Jesús de la Caída de San Bartolomé Becerra and also the beautiful Virgen de la Soledad from Escuela de Cristo. Jesús de la Caída by Roberto Urrea 29 Cristo Negro de Esquipulas by John Donaghy Quirio Cataño

He worked as an active sculptor in Guatemala, of unknown origin, he may have been Spanish, Portuguese or Italian. He settled in Santiago de Guatemala, where he founded a workshop that became one of the largest in the city. His best-known work is the “Cristo Negro” (1594) that rests within the Basilica of Esquipulas.

30 by Roberto Urrea

Types of Religious Sculpture

Imagenes de “Bulto Redondo” (fully carved) meaning images that depict the whole body, hair, and clothing to be later covered in gold leaf and color.

31 Above Wooden Frame image or Bastidor Left, Imagen de Goznes (hinges).

Imagenes de Vestir are wooden sculptures devoid of carved clothing to be dressed in cloth costumes. Of these, there are two variants:

Imagenes de Bastidor to be used in processions, (for lighter weight) and dressed for special occasions. Only heads, hands, and feet are carved and later assembled in a wooden frame or “Bastidor.”

Imagenes de Goznes is a body assembled as a mannequin that can be moved by hinges (goznes) on the shoulders, elbows, knees, hips, etc.

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66 Lent

ooking or eating out during foods outside the normal realm of traditional season of Lent does not have to choices. be difficult, it just takes a bit of awareness and creativity. When I married my husband, I also em- C braced his and his family’s culture and food. Every year many Christians observe spe- For me this was an opportunity to learn new cial diets during 40 days. As I listened to techniques, ingredients and dishes and to have the priest’s sermon one recent morning at fun with my new family and their friends. I church, I thought to myself that the Lent- grew fonder of Danish food the more I was en season is also an opportunity to explore exposed to it.

Shrimp and Egg

67 68 Guatemalan and Latin cuisine are at the a variety of attractive scrumptious dishes. core of my cooking, but I also enjoy eating and making a wide variety of foods, Basically Danish sandwiches come in which I have been fortunate to try during all shapes and sizes and can be a snack or my worldwide travels. Like many other a whole meal. This past Christmas Day, I countries’ gastronomy, Danish and Scandi- created smørrebrod for dinner for my visit- navian cooking is similar in some respects, ing Guatemalan and Danish family in my but it is unique country by country. home in the United States. I have learned the ropes of the Danish kitchen with my I particularly enjoy the art and craft of husband’s mother and sister-in-law and open-faced Danish sandwiches because with uncles and friends who are good cooks. they are not only a feast to the eyes but to the senses, too. Contrary to appearance, As you explore what to eat during Lent, they are quite easy to make. With just a few think outside the box and enjoy foods from easily accessible ingredients, one can create other cultures which offer not only interest-

SILD (HERRING)

69 HAVARTI CHEESE 70 ing presentations but an opportunity to learn 3 slices thinly sliced onion something new. The Danish repertoire is big Garnish: dill and there are seafood and non-meat sandwiches that can satisfy any hungry palate dur- HAVARTI CHEESE ing Lent and beyond. Toppings 2 thin slices of Havarti cheese Here are a couple of recipes to entice you Garnish: bell pepper julienne, radish to explore Scandinavian cooking, especially slices and parsley. Danish cuisine.

SMØRREBROD By Chef Amalia Moreno-Damgaard

The base of all open-faced Danish sandwiches is smørrebrod (rye or French bread and butter), which can change depending on the toppings.

1 sandwich 1 slice rye bread Spread with butter and layer the toppings and garnish as listed.

SHRIMP AND EGG Toppings 1 Bibb lettuce leaf Amalia Moreno-Damgaard is an award- winning bestselling chef author born and raised in 1 hard-boiled egg, sliced Guatemala City currently living in the Twin Cities. 1-2 tsp. light mayonnaise She provides individuals and companies with a taste 1 heaping tablespoon tiny cooked shrimp and understanding of Latin cultures through healthy gourmet cuisine education, consulting, bilingual (salad shrimp) speaking and writing and fun culinary experiences. Garnish: cocktail tomatoes, caviar and dill Her cookbook “Amalia’s Guatemalan Kitchen-Gourmet Cuisine With A SILD (HERRING) Cultural Flair” has won 9 international awards. Toppings AmaliaLLC.com 3 pieces of sild (herring) in white wine

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CREATION AND DEVELOPMENT

n November 3, 2004, the Municipal Firefighters of La Antigua Guatemala Association and the “Municipal Fire Department of La Antigua Guatemala” Owere born into legal life, as its operational body. The Municipal Firefighters of La Antigua Guatemala As- sociation, is an autonomous public service entity, essentially technical, professional, apolitical, with a regime of special discipline, legal personality and own equity, of indefinite duration, which provides its services to the population 24 hours, 365 days a

88 year at no cost and with the primary mission months, following the legal procedures to of saving lives and assisting the population in evict the invaders. On August 20, 2019, by case of illness, calamity, accidents, etc. order of a competent judge, they were evict- ed, and control of the station was again taken, The Municipal Fire Department of La An- which was found in a disastrous state. The tigua Guatemala, is endorsed through the Mayor and Architect Humberto del Busto has Agreement of the Municipality of La Antigua been a member of the Rotary Club Guatema- Guatemala, which recognizes the Association la Sur for more than 30 years and also has 40 of Municipal Firefighters of La Antigua Gua- years participating in firefighter activities ad- temala as the only entity authorized to pro- honorem, being in turn, Commander of the vide extinction services of fires and emergency Voluntary Fire Department of Guatemala and assistance in the municipal jurisdiction, as Commander First Chief of the Municipal Fire established by Decree Law 81-87, Article 31, Department of Guatemala City. Given the Organic Law of the Voluntary Fire Depart- uniqueness of the situation, Arch. Del Busto ment of Guatemala. acted primarily in his own name, until the legal problems were resolved and the fire service DARK AGE resumed again, he presented his project to the Board of Directors of the Rotary Club Gua- At the end of 2017, a group of dissident temala South, which agreed to recognize and and rebellious personnel hijacked all the vehi- support it as a Rotary Club project. cles and equipment of the station, using them for their own benefit and significantly deterio- HONORING THE PAST rating a large number of vehicles, equipment PROTECTING THE FUTURE and supplies. ANTIGUA FOREVER

Start of a Singular SERVICES THAT PROVIDES Rotary Public TO THE POPULATION OF ANTIGUA AND ITS SUR- Benefit Project ROUNDINGS. Faced with this situation, Mayor Susana Asencio, requested the collaboration of Ar- • Fire prevention, chitect Humberto del Busto, to support Fire control and ex- Officers Nur Arevalo and Ángel Díaz, found- tinction. Rescues ers of the Fire Department, to recover a her- of all kinds (col- itage that gradually ceased to provide public lapsed structures, service. The negotiations continued for 21 rescue with spe

89 • cial equipment, rescue in ravines, moun- Pump (Currently under repair), tains, volcanic eruptions, etc). • Mobile Clinical Ambulance Module (Cur- rently under repair) • Pre-hospital emergency services (Ambu- • 2000 Gls Chevrolet Water Supply Truck. lance) at basic and advanced life support (Currently under repair) levels. • Toyota Hi Ace Ambulance 1992 • Hino Heavy Rescue Truck (Currently un- • Training for the population, educational der repair) institutions and private initiative in fire • Durango incident command unit, prevention, accidents and first aid. • Chevrolet Blazer Directive Command Unit.

• Prevention in events and public activities, when there is an agglomeration of people FORCE STATE and there is a risk that requires our presence. At present, there are 43 active firefighters • All services are provided free of charge and at the station, of which only 6 are employees have no cost for the population attended. and the rest provide their services voluntarily without receiving remuneration.

EMERGENCY VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT HONORING THE PAST, PROTECTING THE FUTURE The following equipment and assets that are owned by the Association of Municipal Our Mission Is To Protect: Firefighters of La Antigua, were acquired • An area of approximately 2 square Kms through the efforts of the ad-honorem Direc- corresponding to the protection area tors, mainly with the Fire Corps of Sister Cit- where they are concentrated: ies of La Antigua: • 50,000 inhabitants on business days that • Truck scale and motor pump (currently increase to more than100,000 inhabitants under repair), on holidays. • Waterfall Truck (Currently under repair) • Two1000 Gls Ford motor pump • 140,000 HOUSES AND BUILDINGS • Isuzu Morita motor pump with simple approximately, including the 23 surround- traction, ing villages. • Isuzu Morita Double Traction Motor

90 • PRINCIPAL REGIONAL ECONOMIC talks with the new municipal administra- CENTER, whose income comes mainly tion to establish a reasonable allocation. from tourism and commerce, which in the event of a disaster would collapse the The little that is collected is scarcely economy affecting the living standards of enough to cover fuels and lubricants, mini- its inhabitants. mum wages of 6 salaried firefighters.

• 30 HERITAGE AND PUBLIC USE On average, an annual budget of HERITAGE BUILDINGS. Q540,000.00 is required to operate in min- imum relieved ranges, not including the • 15 MUSEUMS of Painting, Sculpture purchase of rolling units and new equip- and Paper. ment. The staff currently does not have social security coverage (IGSS), posthumous • 15 COLONIAL ARCHIVES with eccle- help, life insurance or risk bonus. siastical, civil and historical themes. The station is kept up-to-date, and if it • 10 HISTORICAL LIBRARIES with ap- were not for the great efforts that the fire- proximately 120,000 volumes. fighters themselves make to repair the units themselves, collect and separately make • 12 PHOTOTECAS with approximately their voluntary turn, the station would have 150,000 images. already closed its doors.

ECONOMIC SUSTAINMENT HOW TO DONATE Please go to cbmantigua.com where you Currently, the Association is financially sup- will find several packages that describe porting its operating body through collections the equipment we request as a donation. in piggy bank on weekends, a small percent- CONTACT: Club Rotario Guatemala Sur: age from private initiative donations. To date, [email protected] there is no contribution, support or budget from the Municipality of La Antigua, the Congress of the Republic or the Central Gov- ernment, despite having repeatedly requested help from these entities. We are currently in

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105 The Heartbreaking Plight of Guatemala’s Street Dogs A reach out to the local community and animal lovers everywhere for assistance The heartbreaking plight of Guatemala's street and feral dogs has become even more urgent because so many people who have dogs, many of them living in poverty, are suffering from the adverse effects of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and the ensuing economic instability. It has become a serious struggle just to feed their families.

There are more hungry dogs on the streets than ever. The heroic Cuerpo de Bomberos Municipales de La Antigua Guatemala is distributing food to hungry dogs, most especially thank you to Marcello Calvinisti and his wife, Dawn Calvinisti.

This distribution of dog food (La Antigua, San Felipe, Jocotenango and Ciudad Vieja) is critical as they can cover a larger area and are exempt from the curfew and other restrictions during Guatemala's declared State of Calamity.

On March 26, Antigua Hope purchased the first 200 lbs. of dog food, and firefighters began feeding hungry dogs in as many locations as possible.

For more information: [email protected] Thanking you in advance, please direct your donations via PayPal: [email protected]

Thank you to Marcello Calvinisti and Pablo Solis, along with many other photographers who shared these images

106 The Heartbreaking Plight of Guatemala’s Street Dogs A reach out to the local community and animal lovers everywhere for assistance The heartbreaking plight of Guatemala's street and feral dogs has become even more urgent because so many people who have dogs, many of them living in poverty, are suffering from the adverse effects of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and the ensuing economic instability. It has become a serious struggle just to feed their families.

On March 26, Antigua Hope purchased the first 200 lbs. of dog food, and firefighters began feeding hungry dogs in as many locations as possible.

For more information: [email protected] Thanking you in advance, please direct your donations via PayPal: [email protected]

Thank you to Marcello Calvinisti and Pablo Solis, along with many other photographers who shared these images

107 108 “Entre bendiciones e indulgencias” Plaza de la Constitución by Diego A. Gordillo Quintana

109 REVUE Photo Contest MAY 2020

tHE BEAUTY OF guatemala

We invite you to participate in our MONTHLY PHOTO CONTEST for May 2020 with the theme: THE BEAUTY OF GUATEMALA.

Please send ONE (1) HIGH RES photo with caption/location and your name & website for the credit line to: [email protected]

There will be prizes for winning photos. More information at: revuemag.com

Submissions entered by the 15th of April will be eligible.

Photos in this ad are from previous contests by: 110 David Rojas, Oscar Benitez, Lo Reyes and Victor Hugo Xalcut. Te invitamos a participar en nuestro Concurso Fotográfico de mayo 2020 con el tema: LA BELLEZA DE GUATEMALA.

Enviar (1) foto en ALTA RESOLUCIÓN con el título, lugar donde fue tomada, su nombre y el sitio web para el crédito a: [email protected]

Habrá premios para las fotos ganadoras. Para más información: revuemag.com

Serán elegibles las fotos recibidas hasta el 15 de abril de 2020.

Prizes for both Categories (Popular & Judges’ vote)

The winner by Editorial Decision wins a FREE NIGHT for 2 at Convento Santa Catalina

The first 4 winners by Popular decision win Q100 each 2nd place, judges pick Q100

*Restrictions Apply 3rd place, judges pick Q50 111 112 Popular vote Co-Winner “Etapas de un turno” La Antigua by Gilda Lizeth Estrada Ruiz IG: gildaestradaruiz

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