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“Maria-nuova Eva”: un’insolita iconografia per un’Immacolata Concezione alabastrina del XVIII secolo
2015
Protagonista dell’articolo è un’inedita Immacolata Concezione in alabastro dorato e dipinto individuata in una collezione privata dell’isola di Malta. Particolarmente affascinante risulta la sua iconografia, che afferma con forza il dogma dell’Immacolata Concezione, e quindi l’assoluta innocenza spirituale della Vergine, ma anche il suo ruolo salvifico svolto in favore dell’umanità intera, privata della redenzione per l’errore commesso dalla progenitrice Eva. The article is dealing with an unpublished Immaculate Conception in gilded and painted alabaster located in a private collection of the island of Malta. Its iconography is very attractive. It firmly establishes the dogma of the Immacul…
La Concepción de María en el tiempo. Recuperación de fórmulas tempranas de representación de la Inmaculada Concepción en la retórica visual del virre…
2014
This paper addresses a genuine aspect of conceptionist visual rhetoric during the Viceroyalty of New Spain: the recycling of Immaculate Conception earlier types of representation that, with the consolidation of the image of the Immaculate derived from the Tota Pulchra, had fallen deprecated in the peninsular art. The tendency of artists and patrons towards these typologies reveals a key aspect to understand the definition of Hispanic culture during the centuries of the Baroque. In the peripheral areas of the Empire, instead of continuous affirmation of the existence of a single Hispanic world, the springs of control over the religious image allowed variability in the implementation of the C…