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Estela antropomorfa con inscripción ibérica del Mas de Barberán (Nogueruelas, Teruel)
1998
The subject of this paper is a little known Iberian gravestele from Nogueruelas (Teruel). The find-spot, the Mas de Barberán, is close to the boundary with Cortes de Arenoso (Castellón). The piece is one of a class of stele charactised by figurative decoration and an inscription. The discussion focusses on the anthropomorphic shape of the piece, its iconography —the disk-cuirass—, and the inscription.
Immagini ed echi di Augusto in Sicilia: realia e contesti, res incertae vel alienae
2022
The paper gathers and analyzes the data useful for reconstructing the reception and the legacy of Augustus’ image in Sicilian civic contexts. Beside the four portrait heads from Syracuse, Centuripe, Tyndaris, Taormina, several sculptural, epigraphic and numismatic testimonia are considered from the above-quoted cities and other Sicilian sites. Except for few more ancient inscriptions/statues(?) (Syracuse) and coins (Segesta), a key moment in the response by the local civic communities to the imperial model is around Augustus’ visit of 21 B.C. and in the immediate period after his death. Moreover, a series of testimonia, mainly inscriptions and coins, belong to mid(-late) Augustan age, parti…
La fortuna iconografica del beato Agostino Novello in Toscana e Sicilia
2021
This paper aims to investigate the cult and iconographic critical fortune of Beato Agostino Novello in Tuscany and Sicily throughout the centuries. It deals with the analysis of the famous painting by Simone Martini Il Beato Agostino Novello and four of his miracles, on which in 1985 Giovanni Previtali had promising opinions.
Cartography an a strategy of empire in Historia General de los Hechos de los Castellanos en las Islas i Tierra firme del Mar Océano by Antonio de Her…
2014
Argumentamos que Herrera intenta legitimizar el control español del Imperio al imponer una universalidad euro-céntrica católica a dicho imperio a través de su aplicación de las iconografías estratégicas, religiosas e imperialistas enraizadas dentro de un programa cartográfico. “La idea de una verdad imperial fue esencial para que los españoles tuviesen una convicción en una experiencia imperial significativa ” y lo que se afirma aquí es que la inclusión de elementos cartográficos presta credibilidad a esta percepción de la verdad. Aunque los académicos críticos cartográficos ahora reconocen que los mapas son subjetivos y producto de la época y de las opiniones de sus creadores, la suposició…
A brave new kingdom: images from the sea and in the coastal sanctuaries of Valencia (XIII–XV centuries)
2014
Tras la conquista de Jaime I, Valencia estaba llamada a convertirse en un nuevo reino cristiano por coherencia geopolítica y decisión real. Desde entonces el Reino de Valencia estaría orientado hacia la Cristiandad occidental y las rutas comerciales del Mediterráneo. Sin embargo, la falta de reliquias o imágenes planteaba un problema espinoso para los nuevos colonos cristianos y sus gobernantes. Las reliquias tuvieron que donarse más tarde, como el fragmento de la corona de espinas de Cristo ofrecida por el rey Luis IX de Francia a la catedral de Valencia o, al final de este período, el Santo Cáliz depositado como garantía de un préstamos por el rey Alfonso V el Magnánimo al tesoro de la mi…
History, Iconography and Digital Drawing for Architectural Heritage: The Case Study of the Church of S. Nicolò alla Kalsa in Palermo (Sicily)
2022
This contribution aims to test the efficiency of a research methodology based on an interdisciplinary approach. This is to be achieved through the case study of the disappeared church of S. Nicolò alla Kalsa in Palermo, an imposing medieval building dating back to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and demolished after an earthquake in 1823. The reconstruction of the original configuration of this disappeared monument was achieved through traditional research sources and tools in the field of architectural and urban history, as well as architectural drawing, relying on both traditional and up-to-date digital technologies. The main source used for this virtual reconstruction is a rich h…
Pero Tafur and Bertradon de la Broquière in Constantinople: The Ceremonial Image of Mary of Trabzond and the Diplomatic Meetings around the Council o…
2019
After the fall of Constantinople (1453), Pero Tafur and Bertrandon de La Broquière make known their works, which are two of the most important travel books written in Europe during the fifteenth century. Both travellers had known, between fifteen and twenty years before, the emperor of Greece, John VIII Palaiologos, Pope Eugene IV and other protagonists of the councils of Basel (1431-1434) and Ferrara-Florence (1438-1439), which decreed the union between the Roman and Greek churches. The travellers were, thus, witnesses, but also informants and active diplomats for the attempts of religious and political union, which Pope Pius II tried to revive after the fall of Constantinople. Tafur and L…
Las marcas en el cuerpo de la víctima: la veracidad encarnada en la violencia de género
2015
Resumen: La certeza y la veracidad son dos requisitos imprescindibles para poder dar fe de su condicion de victima, el testimonio incierto despierta dudas y cuestiona la propia condicion de victima, de la misma manera que cuando la victima se sale de los atributos que consideran la definen. Abordaremos este analisis de la violencia machista recurriendo a las campanas institucionales (entre 1998-2013 a nivel estatal), en las que se recurre a un corpus limitado y muy definido de marcas que estandarizan sobre el cardenal que deja el golpe domestico. En la representacion estetica de la victima el cuerpo ocupa un lugar privilegiado, mas alla del testimonio de la palabra. La sangre y las marcas, …
Deep Emotions, Poor Narratives: On the Iconography of the Retreat ( La Retirada )
2011
The Spanish Civil War and the subsequent border crossing of the Republican population towards France in February 1939 generated a profusion of images of which only a few have become recognizable icons that represent the injustice performed by Franco's victorious army. However, most of these images have circulated without any historical context, thus becoming abstraction rather than historical realities. This article discusses the way the corpus of visual —mostly through film— representations of exile have been used and abused, how they have been "migrating" from one media to another, and hence how they have changed their semantic value and have been use to support different ideological mess…
Papa Pio XII nella storia della Radiologia
2019
Nel 1933 i Professori della Scuola Medica genovese V. Maragliano, GB. Cardinale e A. Vallebona decisero di proporre come Santo Patrono e Protettore dei Radiologi, San Michele Arcangelo. L’iniziativa dei Grandi Maestri genovesi della Radiologia fu accolta subito dai colleghi con grande entusiasmo. Venne quindi inoltrata richiesta scritta di “supplica” a Papa Pio XII per ottenere il riconoscimento ufficiale da parte della Chiesa cattolica. La scelta dell’Arcangelo Michele fu motivata dai Professori in quanto Santo che, nell’iconografia religiosa, è l’unico a vestire l’armatura, è guardiano del Paradiso e conduce le anime a Dio. Inoltre il Santo rappresenta, il trionfo della luce del bene cont…