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Tur e Iraj, Caín y Abel: Semejanzas iconográficas en la interminable lucha del mal y el bien.
2015
ABSTRACT: The duality between good and evil is a common topic in all civilizations regardless of chronology or geographical location. It is a conflict reflected in art history, and on the present occasion, through the iconographic types of Cain killing Abel as well as Tur murdering Iraj. The roots of these myths are deeply embedded in two highly relevant written sources, the Bible and the Shahnameh or The Book of Kings . The latter was written by the great Iranian poet Ferdowsi. The legends, despite having different origins, nevertheless have many similarities and they share a particular iconographic type. I analyze each of the myths along with their pictorial representations, which connec…
'In altum mittis radices humilitatis'. A Study of Marian Images in touch with Nature
2019
espanolCiertos tipos iconograficos marianos se han mostrado especialmente propicios a las representaciones de la Virgen en relacion con algunos elementos naturales. La Madre de Dios se encuentra, a menudo, en contacto directo con la tierra en numerosas imagenes de la Virgen de la Humildad y en un jardin, rodeada de flores, en la Virgen de la Rosaleda; mientras que, tras su Asuncion, lirios y rosas asoman del sepulcro vacio. En todos estos casos, segun podemos inferir de su estudio iconografico, a partir de las fuentes patristicas y teologicas, la naturaleza es un simil de las virtudes de la Virgen, aunque no siempre. En algunas imagenes de la Scala Salutis, el suelo permite fijar a Maria en…
Abraham Bids Farewell to Hagar and Ishmael: Continuity and Variation of the Iconographic Type
2021
In traditional Christian artistic visualization, the episode of Hagar and Ishmael in the desert has given rise to various iconographic types: “The feast for the weaning of Isaac and Sara’s protests,” “Abraham bids farewell to Hagar and Ishmael,” “Hagar and Ishmael in the desert” and “Divine salvation for Hagar and Ishmael”. This study looks into the continuity and variation over time of the second of these types: “Abraham bids farewell to Hagar and Ishmael,” the one most depicted out of this entire biblical topic or episode. Since the Byzantine Octateuch in the East (11th century.) and the Canterbury Hexateuch (ca. 1025&ndash…