Search results for "16th Century"
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The Body of the Soul. Lucretian Echoes in the Renaissance Theories on the Psychic Substance and its Organic Repartition
2015
In the 16th and 17th centuries, when Aristotelianism still was the leading current of natural philosophy and atomistic theories began to arise, Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura stood out as an attractive and dangerous model. The present paper reassesses several relevant aspects of Lucretius’ materialistic psychology by focusing on the problem of the soul’s repartition through the limbs discussed in Book 3. A very successful Lucretian image serves as fil rouge throughout this survey: the description of a snake chopped up, with its pieces moving on the ground (Lucretius DRN 1969, 3.657–669). The paper’s first section sets the poet’s theory against the background of ancient psychology, pointing out …
El oráculo saboteado: ideología y comportamientos guiados en la comedia áurea
2020
[spa] Este artículo propone un análisis del género teatral áureo en uno de sus mecanismos retóricos con mayor capacidad performativa: la función dramática oracular a partir de la cual una voz superior -sea un oráculo, un sueño, una voz interior o cualquier otra posesión transitoria- es escuchada simultáneamente por el receptor-personaje y por el receptor-público. El dramaturgo jerarquiza así la heterogeneidad de discursos presentes en el microcosmos de la comedia y, ofreciendo un silogismo epistemológico, incita a actuar directamente al primero y metonímicamente al segundo. La crítica entendida como sabotaje ofrece unas herramientas críticas que permiten desenmascarar los entresijos de esto…
Arquitectura renacentista "inacabada" de Jerónimo Quijano y su integración en determinados templos de origen gòtico
2014
Jerónimo Quijano fue un arquitecto español que destacó durante la etapa del Renacimiento Pleno en España en el tercio central del siglo XVI. Los edificios seleccionados principalmente son: iglesia de Santiago de Orihuela –Alicante– e iglesia de Santa María del Salvador de Chinchilla –Albacete–. En ambos se construyó una nueva cabecera renacentista e integrada en una nave gótica preexistente y en el caso de haber sido “acabadas” íntegramente con el criterio del maestro serían sin duda ejemplos claves del Renacimiento español. En Orihuela se percibe la necesidad de “descubrir” visualmente el magnífico arco de triunfo romano que hace de portada de la nueva cabecera renacentista, sugiriendo así…
Graffiti dello Steri di Palermo e conoscenze mediche
2007
The graffiti left by prisoners in the Inquisition gaols of Palermo's represent a testimony of the historical period between 1600 to 1793. In that period, by order of the viceroy Caracciolo, all the testimonies were removed at the same time in which the Inquisition court was suppressed. In this work the historical subdivision between sacred and profane themes is analyzed with the purpose to study human body in an anthropological key as a language in condition of limited freedom and under torture. Many of the profane graffiti are devoted to medical knowledge suggesting that doctors were involved in the activities of this religious court likewise happened in civil courts. Giovanni Filippo Ingr…
Gli ospedali di Palermo e Messina tra XVI e XVII secolo: architettura, servizi e spazio urbano
2021
A competition for the primacy in the Island took place during the 16th century in Palermo and Messina, the two main Sicilian cities at that time, thus establishing the grounds for comparison in architectural and urban construction sites. This assumption is also confirmed in the design of the “places of care” – modern hospitals which both cities were equipped with – with a focus, in addition to the efficiency of the new institutions, to the quality of the architectural image and the urban location.
La vida cotidiana de los vecinos de Manila a través de sus testamentos e inventarios de bienes
2019
With the general objective indicated in its title, this work tries to highlight relevant aspects in the continuity of the Spanish domain in the Philippines, dependent on the maintenance of the Spanish capital. The inevitable selection of topics has lead the preferences of this work towards the residents collaboration to defend the city, the conversion of many of them into traders of exotic products and singular slaves owners, and their collaboration to an incredible miscegenation due to the ethnic variety. On the other hand, to follow the footsteps of the first generation of residents in Manila, at the end of the 16th century and during the 17th century, this work gives us some information …
Un contrato de los Hernandos para la capilla de les Febres de la Seo de Xàtiva en 1511
2006
The contract dated 1511 signed by Fernando Llanos and Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina, Castillian painters known as “the Hernandos,” for the termination of an altarpiece in the chapel of the “Virgen de les Febres” is presented here. This chapel was founded in 1497 in the collegiate church of Jàtiva (Valencia) by Francisco de Borja, Bishop of Teano and Cardinal of Cosenza. Based on this document, a series of hypotheses are put forth concerning the trajectory and works of “the Hernandos” following their execution of the doors of the main altarpiece of the Cathedral of Valencia.<br><br>Se presenta el contrato firmado en 1511 por Fernando Llanos y Fernando Yañez de la Almedina, pintor…
Transgresión moral y enfermedad en los países nórdicos en la temprana Edad Moderna
2009
This article seeks to understand how people in the early modern age interpreted the nature of illness and the role that morality played in these interpretations. From this point of view illnesses were not only psycho-physical states or subjects for medical diagnosis but they were also subjects for narratives or stories through which people tried to understand what had caused their illness, and why it was happening to them. Illnesses were understood as strictly connected with the patient's character and were regarded as possible consequences of his personality. On the other hand, the interpretations also emphasised the ambivalence of a healer. Personal experiences and an understanding of one…
Un'inedita tavola di Geronimo Rizzardo in Sicilia. Restauro e scoperta
2018
Study and analysis of the panel painting of the Madonna del Rosario with Dominican and Franciscan saints is kept in the church of Maria SS. del Rosario in the Parrini village, a small fraction of Partinico, in the province of Palermo. The restoration intervention allowed the discovery of an initials that reveal the author: the painter, perhaps Venetian, Geronimo Rizzardi, a mannerist artist inserted in the context of the city of Palermo at the end of the sixteenth century.
Andrea Calamech (1524-1589)
2011
Andrea Calamech è ricordato da Vasari come «creato ed accademico» di Bartolomeo Ammannati, menzionato quindi più in virtù dell’amicizia e della lunga collaborazione professionale che legava i due maestri della corte medicea, che per una approfondita e duratura conoscenza dello scultore e architetto carrarese, della cui attività, infatti, non sembra essere ben informato: nella seconda edizione delle Vite lo dà per morto nella lontana Messina, proprio nel momento in cui la carriera artistica di Andrea nella città dello stretto, invece, progrediva favorevolmente, per svilupparsi con grande successo fino alla fine degli anni ottanta del secolo, come architetto di fiducia della municipalità, del…