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Neptuno Alegórico: emblemático arco en la obra de sor Juana
2013
ABSTRACT: Frequently but unevenly valued, sor Juana Ines de la Cruz’s (1648-1695) Neptuno alegorico [Allegorical Neptune] has received increased attention in recent years, as though —by virtue of its nature as «ephemeral art»— «that» art (emblematic) had become increasingly more meaningful than the fugacious situation from which it emerged. An exceptional text, the design of the triumphal archway that welcomed the new viceroy Tomas Antonio de la Cerda and his wife Maria Luisa Manrique de Lara in 1680, reveals not only the importance that sor Juana had already attained, to a great extent, as a writer, but also, and more emphatically, it shows the relevance of her public figure and, in a prog…
«O engenho e a arte» de Camões nos emblemas das Festas que se fizeram pelo casamento del Rey D. Affonso VI
2013
ABSTRACT: This study aims to offer an interpretation of the possible meanings of the emblematic images and verses of Camoes present in the triumphal arches erected for the royal wedding of Afonso VI and Maria Francisca de Saboia (1666), through the analysis of the epithalamic album entitled Festas que se fizerao pelo Cazamento del Rey D. Affonso VI. Its texts and symbolic watercolors are of great artistic and cultural interest, because they derive their inspiration from the emblem books of the period in order to disseminate political messages that can be read in multiple ways. KEY WORDS: Emblematics, Ephemeral Art, Marriage, Baroque Courts, Camoes RESUMEN: Este estudio pretende realizar una…
On the Origins of Spanish Hieroglyphs: Part One
2015
ABSTRACT: In this paper the Spanish reception of hieroglyphs, and its outcome, is presented as an important aspect of the process of transmission of hieroglyphs in Early-Modern Europe. This change of perspective is important because it gives a general context for the phenomenon in Spain, clarifies its ties with the rest of the continent through the process of diffusion and –perhaps more relevantly– highlights the distinct characteristics that hieroglyphs assumed in Spain as response to a different mentality, culminating with the creation of what the author regards as «classic Spanish hieroglyphs». KEYWORDS: Hieroglyph, Emblem, Diffusion, Genre. RESUMEN: En este trabajo, dividido en dos part…
The Emblematic Handkerchief in Othello, and Its Untold Backstory
2017
ABSTRACT: Early modern emblems intentionally performed aspects of one’s character that elicited curiosity while conveying secret messages, often amorous and at times shared by lovers. Emblems could be engraved in medallions, affixed to jewelry, printed in books, and sewn into textiles, such the strawberry motif embroidered in the handkerchief Othello gives Desdemona in Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice . Most critics interpret the emblematic handkerchief for what it comes to mean in the play, whereas I explore how it could have meant when Othello initially gives it to Desdemona. Why would a chivalric warrior give his lady such a handkerchief? And what could this…
El lugar de María Intercesora en las imágenes de la Escala de Salvación. Interpretación iconográfica de sus aspectos formales.
2013
ABSTRACT: Iconographic studies often overlook the formal questions of an image, which nevertheless can be essential to interpret the continuity of an iconographic type. This is the case of the Scala Salutis, in which Christ and His Mother intercede with God on behalf of humanity. Mary’s place in these works depends on the varying manners in which she was regarded between the end of the Middle Ages and the 16 th century, when this iconographic type reached its highest level of development. And it will be precisely her physical position in the images, along with other significant elements, that determines the given type. KEY WORDS: Mary Intercessor, Scala Salutis, History of Iconographic Type…
Cesare Ripa y la portada de la iglesia de Pájara, en Fuerteventura
2013
ABSTRACT: Iconology , the important book of allegories and attributes compiled by Cesare Ripa in 1593, was a major source for understanding the symbolic art of the culture of the period. Its application affected the visual practice of arts and architecture. In Pajara (Fuerteventura. Canary Islands), there is a temple whose main facade draws on symbols that seem to be influenced by Ripa's work: elements of Nature and zoomorphic, animistic and material representations with a decided spiritual and cosmogonic charge. In the context of Baroque culture, the symbols recorded on the facade proclaim the triumph of the Reformed Church. KEY WORDS: Seventeenth Century Architecture. Iconography. Iconolo…
La divisa de las granadas del rey Enrique IV de Castilla y su estela posterior
2015
ABSTRACT: This study analyzes the meaning of the impresa or device of the pomegranates, with the motto « Agro dulce », utilized by Henry IV (1425-1474), of the House of Trastamara, King of Castile from 1454 until his death. By means of a review of vestiges that remain of the device, especially in architectonic elements, I postulate that the pomegranate may have been used as the family impresa of the House of Trastamara and their descendants. This, it seems, can be deduced from the pictura of the device in several personal imprese of relatives who lived in the sixteenth century. KEYWORDS: pomegranate, devices, royal clemency, Henry IV, Catholic Monarchs, Catherine of Aragon, Charles V, Phili…
Antonio Bernat, John Cull y Tamás Sajó: Book of Honors for Empress Maria of Austria
2013
Resena del libro: B ERNAT VISTARINI, Antonio, CULL, John T. y SAJO, Tamas (Eds.), Book of Honors for Empress Maria of Austria Composed by the College of the Society of Jesus of Madrid on the Occasion of her Death, 1603 , Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts Series, vol. 5, Filadelfia, Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2011, 240 pp. y un apendice facsimil, numerosas ilustraciones en blanco y negro, I.S.B.N.: 978-0-916101-73-2.
Emblemas del papado. La representación del vicio en la propaganda protestante alemana del siglo XVI
2016
ABSTRACT: Those of the Wittenberg Circle who had undergone reformation continually submitted their criticisms to the Papacy throughout the sixteenth century. They saw in this institution one of the principal evils of the Catholic Churchn which they saw one of the principal males of the Catholic Church. As a result, they identified the Papacy ad nauseam with the Antichrist and with cardinal sins such as lust, gluttony, greed or pride. This article thus analyzes diverse aberrant ways of depicting the Papacy in order to evaluate the importance and meaning of this identification as part of the political-religious polemics and of the phenomenon of the propaganda of the convulsed period of the P…
Los retratos de Miguel de Cervantes: de la búsqueda del hombre al triunfo del mito
2017
ABSTRACT : Miguel de Cervantes has his own gallery of images that have come down to posterity, but who painted the portraits of Miguel de Cervantes that have been discovered over the course of time? Beginning with the verbal self-portrait of himself that Cervantes crafts in the prologue of his Novelas ejemplares (1613), this study traces the route of the different portraits sine 1738 that have been claimed as the true image of the author from Alcala de Henares. It is a path that follows along the character known as Miguel de Cervantes, which has imposed itself on the myth, taking precedence over the man who lived during the Golden Age. KEYWORDS: Cervantes; Portrait; Cervantine Iconography…