Portraiture is an important medium of building identities. It is not just the artist or the models. The institutions with which they are related must be considered. That is why, when examining the people portrayed, we must do so by considering the type of activity they carry out, because human actions take place in specific social contexts. When people or groups are interested in their public image, portraits can be used as a tool in order to forge personal or collective identities, revealing the status and value of these people or groups, not only in terms of composition, format and place, but also by its use. The goal of this paper is to focus on these aspects studying an example of the image of science and the consolidation of a research group, the Department of Macromolecular Chemistry of Barcelona, through the painting of the same name by Catalan artist Jordi Maragall i Mira. This research group showed its cohesion, not only through their research program in Structural Molecular Biology, but also through a set of images that reflect this reality. I will mainly use Maragall’s painting, but special mention will be made of a set of photographs by unknown authors who complement it and show this cohesion with realistic images in other situations than the research itself.
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