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Language IMAGO. Revista de Emblemática y Cultura Visual. No 02
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- Antonio Pisano y Enrique Giner: dos visiones medallísticas sobre Alfonso V El Magnánimo.(2010) Mechó González, AntonioAntonio Pisano, called ilPisanello, and Enrique Giner are two of the most renowned medallists to have ever practiced the art. In addition, both explored the stylistic and symbolic capacity of the art of medal engraving, working, among their many commissions, on a personage common to both of them, a man of extraordinary importance in Valencian history: Alfonso the Magnanimous. Pisano crafted his medal during the height of the Renaissance, while Giner executed his version in the twentieth century. Both artists managed to reflect different aspects of the monarch, in accordance with what their patrons demanded and, above all, the dictates of the epoch in which they worked. This study explores the aesthetic and iconographical paths that both authors took in their distinct representations and explores their ideological backgrounds.
- Nuevas lecturas en torno al retablo mayor de San Jaime apóstol de Algemesí.(2010) Olivares Torres, EnriqueThis article offers an interpretation of the possible meanings present in the ancient altar-piece or reredos of Saint James the Apostle in Algemesí [province of Valencia], painted by Francisco Ribalta between 1603 and 1610. It studies the different iconographical types that formed the altar-piece and their underlying literary tradition by means of an interpretation of the ideological discourse manifested in the diverse narrative and conceptual images, as examples of conversion, preaching and virtue as a path to perfection in Christian life.
- V. Mínguez, I. Rodríguez, V. Zuriaga (eds.). El sueño de Eneas. Imágenes utópicas de la ciudad.(2010) Chiva Beltrán, Juan
- «Una pintura que se contiene en un pliego grande». El tablero de la Filosofía cortesana de Alonso de Barros: una Oca emblemática entre España e Italia (1587 y 1588).(2010) Infantes, VíctorThis article studies the illustrations of the game of Filosofía cortesana (Courtly philosophy) accompanying the 1587 Madrid edition. The existence of these images was not heretofore known, although a 1588 Venice edition has recently been discovered with a representation of the gameboard. The article includes a review of scholarship to date on this topic as well as a letter documenting familiarity with the Game of the Goose in the Spanish court in the years prior to the publication of the edition by Barros.
- La mala fortuna de Cleopatra en la batalla de Accio(2010) Amaral, RubemThis article is a study, from the viewpoint of Emblematics, of the meaning of the painting by Lorenzo A. Castro The Battle of Actium, 2nd September 31 B.C., in the collection of the National Maritime Museum in London. I interpret the painting based on the allegory of Fortune, which originates in the pictura of an emblem by Alciato. In the painting it is depicted on the figure-head of Cleopatra’s galley, which flees the battle, an episode considered as the turning point in the fate of the famous queen of Egypt.
- J.J. Azanza y R. Zafra. Deleitando enseña: una lección de Emblemática. Libros de emblemas de la Universidad de Navarra(2010) Doménech García, Sergi
- José M. Morales Folguera. Las sibilas en el arte de la Edad Moderna, Europa mediteránea y Nueva España(2010) Escalera Pérez, Reyes
- Del túmulo de Carlos II al túmulo del Delfín de Francia: tránsito en imágenes por la Guerra de Sucesión en Granada.(2010) Cuesta García de Leonardo, María JoséDesde la muerte de Carlos II a la decantación de la Guerra a favor de Felipe, las tendencias ideológicas marcarán su huella en la iconografía efímera de los túmulos de Carlos II y del padre de Felipe V, patrocinados por la Ciudad de Granada. La peligrosa no definición por Felipe, en los primeros momentos, será la causa del derroche en la impresión del folleto descriptivo del túmulo del segundo, lo que se traducirá en un extraordinario número de grabados, siendo especialmente interesantes los de sus jeroglíficos, principal aportación de este estudio.
- Epitalamios e himeneos. Iconografía y literatura nupcial en las cortes del Barroco.(2010) Rodríguez Moya, InmaculadaThis study deals, from a general point of view, with the texts and images present in some epithalamium and hymen lyrics: poetic compositions written in the 16th and 17th centuries in European courts on the occasion of the arranged marriages between members of the royal families. The emblematic and symbolic images are of great interest for Art History, because they take inspiration from the emblem books of the period and develop the customary topoi of marriage literature. However, the most significant aspects are the political messages they divulge, basically the political benefits to be derived from these dynastic unions.
- Entre el libro de emblemas y el manual de conducta militar: las Empresas Políticas Militares de Pozuelo, obra crepuscular de la emblemática hispana.(2010) Azanza López, José Javier1731 saw the publication of a manual of exemplary conduct for the military class in the exercise of their profession: the EmpresasPolíticasMilitares, by Juan Antonio Pozuelo. The book is composed of 55 imprese,each of which conforms to the characteristic tripartite disposition of an emblem. In his enumeration of the virtues that must guide soldiers, and of the vices to avoid, the author resorts continuously to motifs from the emblematic tradition, a clear example of the decline of the genre. Nevertheless, it is possible to detect a small group of imprese with a greater degree of originality, which implies a personal contribution by the author to the lesson that he wants to transmit. And at times, the objects chosen to illustrate the theme are closely related to the military world, in an attempt by Pozuelo to adapt the symbolic-emblematic universe to the audience to whom the book is addressed. As a result, we are dealing with a book which, thanks to its repeated references to works and authors of military themes, acquires on occasion aspects of a military treatise. This study analyzes the imprese created by Pozuelo, explaining their sources and meaning.
- Las exequias de Isabel de Farnesio en Guatemala, 1767-68.(2010) García Pérez, Francisco JoséRoyal exequies in the Spanish-speaking Americas are a derivative of the European tradition, both in the form and the contents included in this type of mournful celebrations. In the case of deceased queens, in the majority of instances the exequies wind up being a kind of praise in order to render tribute to the monarch, whether currently reigning, as in this case, or the heir to the throne. These solemn festivals are a window display of a symbolic expression that reveals the utilization of European repertories inherited from the European and Spanish tradition. One of their most prominent features are the hieroglyphs that constitute a deeply rooted tradition in funeral exequies, as a way to praise and glorify the life and actions of the deceased. These hieroglyphs are based on the emblematic repertory that has manifested itself over the course of centuries in all the European and American territories. In this case I study the eighteenth century figure of Isabel de Farnesio and the celebrations that took place in Guatemala City.
