“Joc Maonès” Returns, A Menorcan Martial Art That Was Thought To Have Been Lost | Entertainment | The USA Print – Global News, Entertainment, Tech, Celebrity Health And Wellness, Global Market – Breaking US News Today
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It all started when the Museum of Menorca found a 19th century painting whose author is still unknown, an altarpiece depicting a common day in the Baixamar area of the Port of Mahón sometime in 1835.
The painting “The Warehouses of the Port of Mahón” has more than one hundred figures distributed in two different scenes that divide the painting into two halves, one outdoors and the other inside the magatzems. “The 158 characters in the painting are our guides through the history of Menorca at the time,” say the Museum’s curators, Cristina Andreu and Montserrat Anglada.
Among the most representative figures on the canvas, in addition to the bourgeois man with a sword, the Spanish infantry soldier, the mourning widow and the fisherman boy, two sailors stand out engaged in what seems to be a fight. It is the first – and for now only – graphic record of “Joc Maonès”, a Menorcan martial art that was believed to have been lost.
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