2023-08-10 10:26:06
On the occasion of the centenary of the death of the Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla, a series of keys on the most appropriate spelling of some terms that may appear in the information related to this celebration are offered below.
1. Known as the painter of lightwith lower case
According to academic orthography, the descriptive explanatory appositions that accompany proper names, and sometimes even replace them, are written with lower case: the painter of light
2. The titles of the tables, in italics and with initial capital letters
The titles of the paintings are written on italic (or, failing that, between quotation marks) and with initial capitalization only in the first word and proper nouns: A walk by the sea, the horse’s bath, the Valencian fishermen…
3. The names of the exhibitions, in quotes and with initial capital letter
When cited in a text, the names of the exhibitions are written between quotation marks and with an initial capital letter only in the first word and in proper names, as recommended in the academic spelling: «Sorolla through light», «Sorolla, a new dimension».
4. Painter of the impressionismwith lower case
The names of artistic movements and styles They are only written with a capital letter if they cover all or most of the artistic disciplines and identify large culturally differentiated historical-chronological periods. Thus, it is written Renaissance, Baroque o Romancebut modernism, realism, costumbrismo, impressionism, post-impressionism, luminism…
5. The Belle Epoquein italics and with lower case
He Dictionary of the Spanish language pick up the french expression Belle Epoque in italics and with lowercase initials and defines it as ‘the period prior to the First World War characterized by socioeconomic and cultural progress and, consequently, leisure’.
6. Hemiplejia y hemiplejíavalid accents
According to him Panhispanic dictionary of doubtslos nouns ending in -plejia o -plegia admit two accents: with diphthong (hemiplejiawithout tilde) and with hiatus (hemiplejía, with a tilde in the i). However, this same work adds that in current Spanish, words ending in -plejia (with the exception of apoplexysince only that form is considered valid, not apoplejia).
7. Centenaryupper case and lower case
The noun centenary It is written, as a general rule, with a lowercase initial, since it is a common name (“The best exhibitions to get closer to Sorolla on the centenary of his death”). However, it is written with a capital initial when it is part of the proper name of a celebration, as in “Music and audiovisual productions will also have a place at the Sorolla Centenary”.
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