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Digital Art History at the Crossroads
2022
Information and Communications Technologies, and more specifically online digital media, are revolutionizing the ways to produce and disseminate scientific knowledge. Humanities and social sciences -art history among them- are not alien to this process. The new challenges and opportunities have already generated a body of thinking and abundant case studies. Many of these applications have been exploratory, disconnected, and short-lived, but nonetheless very stimulating. This essay offers a report on the state of the conversation: a meeting at the crossroads, briefly outlining debates, agreements and disagreements, (dis)continuities with the broader framework of the discipline, and future pe…
Scientific power in the Spanish press during the Pandemic : a portrait of new leaders while explaining its risk
2021
This work is based on the mediatisation of society theory, which establishes more attached importance and the presence of the mass media as mediators in various social processes, as well as on Production Studies, that analyse creative skills to draw an audience, to apply these theories to the media representation of the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective is to analyse how the generalist media have represented male/female scientists, who have become social benchmarks during the first COVID-19 wave in Spain. Our initial hypothesis considers that the purpose of the mediatisation of scientific discourse was to contribute answers to, and to keep society calm, in an uncertainty context. By content …
Graphic readings and digital configurations: Akragas, Girgenti and Agrigento
2018
The study deals with a graphic analysis of the city of Agrigento through the identification of the territorial, urban and architectural peculiarities that have designed its evolution. Starting from the landscape representations realized since the sixteenth century, the views from the sea by Spannocchi, the glances on the apric territory by Pancrazi, the Hellenic ruins inside the medieval Girgenti by Martorana and the Grand Tour travelers’ productions, the urban transformations of Agrigento are reconstructed starting from the points of view adopted by the draftsmen. The aim is to provide a description through images of the multiple points of view with respect to which the territory has been …
Emblemática mariana. Flores de Miraflores de Fray Nicolás de la Iglesia
2009
Fray Nicolás de la Iglesia, prior de la Cartuja de Burgos, mandó decorar una capilla dedicada a la Virgen con emblemas marianos. Poco después, entre 1653-54, los insertó —añadiendo otros nuevos, hasta un total de cincuenta y uno— en un libro dedicado exclusivamente a la Inmaculada titulado: Flores de Miraflores, hieroglificos sagrados, verdades figuradas, sombras verdaderas del Mysterio de la Inmaculada Concepción de la Virgen y Madre de Dios María Señora nuestra. Se da así la circunstancia de que un conjunto pictórico origina una obra escrita. En este artículo se analizan los jeroglíficos creados por fray Nicolás explicando sus fuentes y significado. Friar Nicolás de la Iglesia, prior of t…
A Search for the Hidden King: Messianism, Prophecies and Royal Epiphanies of the Kings of Aragon (circa 1250-1520)
2019
Modern historiography has studied the influence of messianic and millennialist ideas in the Crown of Aragon extensively and, more particularly, how they were linked to the Aragonese monarchy. To date, research in the field of art history has mainly considered royal iconography from a different point of view: through coronation, historical or dynastic images. This article will explore the connections, if any, between millennialist prophetic visions and royal iconography in the Crown of Aragon using both texts and the figurative arts, bearing in mind that sermons, books and images shared a common space in late medieval audiovisual culture, where royal epiphanies took place. The point of depar…
The Word in the Image: an Epiconographic Analysis of Reformed Mosaics in Rome (Twelfth-century)
2011
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Figurazioni dell'amor patrio - Esuli, profughi e migranti nelle arti visive del Risorgimento
2019
Figura simbolica fortemente radicata nell’immaginario risorgimentale, l’esule conferisce un volto umano a valori fondativi del discorso patriottico, come lo spirito di sacrificio e il senso di appartenenza alla comunità nazionale. Da tempo oggetto di studi storici, storico-letterari e comparatistici, il tema dell’esilio conosce una notevole fortuna iconografica nell’Europa del XIX secolo, qui per la prima volta esaminata in maniera sistematica grazie alla ricostruzione puntuale della genesi di opere che in virtù della loro natura allusiva suscitano l’interesse degli ambienti patriottici. Oltre a proporre una casistica dei motivi più ricorrenti, l’autore interpreta le immagini dell’esilio al…
<em>L’entramès de Mestre Vicent</em>: resplandor de la autoridad del predicador
2019
El presente artículo aborda múltiples aspectos, algunos inéditos, referentes a l’entramès de Mestre Vicent. Entre los objetivos del estudio descuella la reconstrucción virtual y documentada de aquel carro que, quizá albergando la primera representación de Vicent Ferrer, desfiló en Valencia a finales de 1414 con ocasión de la entrada real de Fernando I. Otras cuestiones de especial relevancia atañen a la autoría del programa iconográfico y al proselitismo que denotaba aquella estructura, cuyos máximos beneficiarios fueron el Trastámara y la propia ciudad. Metodológicamente, se subraya la complejidad que entraña ceñir la interpretación del entremés amparada exclusivamente en la literatura, má…
La iconografía en la era digital: hacia una heurística para el estudio del contenido de las imágenes medievales
2014
Este artículo invita a reflexionar sobre la validez de la iconografía como método para describir los temas representados en las obras artísticas medievales. En esta ocasión, se ha puesto un mayor énfasis en investigar sus implicaciones epistemológicas y los sesgos que resultan del proceso de transformar las imágenes en palabras. El objetivo principal es tratar de que aflore la llamada 'brecha semántica', una especie de barrera que impide representar verbalmente un medio no léxico, como es el visual, de manera satisfactoria y sin mermas. Tras un sucinto recorrido por el pensamiento griego, con un especial interés por la écfrasis, se sugiere que el aparente equilibrio entre las capacidades se…
La (re)construcció visual i retòrica de Jaume I a la Festa de l?Estendard de Mallorca durant l?època foral
2017
Resum: L’article preten adverar de quina manera es configurava i s’identificava la figura del rei en Jaume a la Festa de l’Estendard, la commemoracio anual de la conquesta cristiana de la ciutat de Mallorca, mitjancant l’analisi dels elements visuals i retorics planificats per al desenvolupament d’aquella. Cal parar atencio, concretament, a dos d’aquests elements: el portaestandard que anava a cavall ben abillat amb armadura i altres objectes i l’eloquent predica –coneguda com el Sermo de la Conquesta– que pronunciava un clergue acreditat per a tal funcio. Paraules clau: Jaume I, imatge regia, festes de la Baixa Edat Mitjana, iconografia del poder, Regne de Mallorca Abstract: This paper att…