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Language IMAGO. Revista de Emblemática y Cultura Visual. No 01
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- La formación de la imagen de los Siete Príncipes. Descripción diacrónica, fuentes y hermenéutica(2009) Doménech García, SergiThe present study deals with the first appearance of the image of the Seven Princes. Studying the tradition behind this image, I analyze how the iconographic type of the Seven Princes, evolved both from the point of view of composition as well as iconography. I also treat the interpretation of the image and the cult of these archangels. To this end, the study resorts back to the main sources of angelology and analyzes the most important works of angelic tratise writers from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- Emblemática mariana. Flores de Miraflores de Fray Nicolás de la Iglesia(2009) Escalera Pérez, ReyesFriar Nicolás de la Iglesia, prior of the Carthusian monastery of Burgos, ordered the decoration of a chapel devoted to the Virgin Mary with Marian emblems. Shortly thereafter, between 1653-1654, he inserted them —adding some new ones, bringing the total to fifty-one— in a book dedicated to the Immaculate Conception entitled: Flores de Miraflores, hieroglificossagrados, verdadesfiguradas, sombrasverdaderas del Mysterio de la Inmaculada Concepción de la Virgen y Madre de Dios MaríaSeñoranuestra. We are faced therefore with the phenomenon of a pictorial collection that gives rise to a written work. This study analyzes the hieroglyphs created by Friar Nicolás, explaining their sources and meaning.
- Rafael García Mahíques. Iconografía e Iconología. Volumen 2. Cuestiones de método(2009) Sánchez Millán, Rafael
- El «apareamiento oral» (oris coitus) de las serpientes y su simbología en la literatura emblemática neolatina(2009) Antón Martínez, BeatrizThis paper is about the so called «oral mating» (oris coitus) of the serpents and its symbolism in the books of Latin emblems of the XVIth and XVIIth century, revising the different interpretations that the authors offer of this ancient argument and identifying the Classic, Medieval and Renaissance sources (as iconographical as literary). Likewise, there are established the curious overlaps that such a metaphor presents with mythical archetypes.
- Una vida en imágenes: los daily photo projects y la retórica del instante(2009) Vives-Ferrándiz Sánchez, LuisDaily photo projects are contemporary photographic practises whose authors take a daily self-portrait with a digital camera until the day they dye. Pictures are assembled in videos that concentrate their lifetime in minutes. Then, a whole life is visualized in a sequence of instants, of snapshots. These works in progress display a new sight to the topic of vanitas and self-portrait because they are proper allegories of life, especially because of the presence of death at the end of them. The montage transforms these projects in «vanitas in motion» because the sequence of instants shows the getting old process.
- La celda del Padre Salamanca en el Convento de la Merced de Cuzco. Guía conceptual de la vida religiosa mercedaria en el altiplano peruano del setecientos(2009) Morales Folguera, José MiguelIn the year 1650 an earthquake destroyed Cuzco’s Merced convent, which necessitated its reconstruction. This allowed for the construction of a cell in the lower cloister, dubbed that of Father Salamanca, whose walls and ceilings are entirely covered by paintings in tempera, which in their totality constitute a unitary iconographical program, in spite of the fact that several styles and the participation of at least two or three different artists can be observed. This program follows the models mandated by the Counter-reformation Church, and its scenes are structured within the four rooms of the cell: the entrance hall features the virtues that a monk should practice; the vestibule depicts Mercedarian iconographical themes; the bedroom shows Christ's Infancy, and the penitential cell his Final Moments, while the socles are adorned with the three ways of mystical life.
- Las imágenes de la textualidad tipográfica. Brevete sobre el Format-Büchlein (Graz, 1670-1677)(2009) Infantes, VíctorThis study deals briefly with the content of Format-Büchlein, printed in Graz between 1670 and 1677, a work on different book formats, although it also includes many other considerations on the art of printing. I comment on some of the illustrations on typographical matters that are included in the work.
- Rafael García Mahíques, Iconografía e Iconología. Volumen 1. La Historia del arte como Historia cultural(2009) Azanza López, José Javier
- Pastores en los libros de emblemas españoles(2009) Alonso Rey, María DoloresIn Spanish emblem books the figure of the bad shepherd is used to criticize the excessive tax system and the abandonment of power by the king. Two types of representations are used: the rustic shepherd and the mythological shepherd. These are applied both to the power of the state and to the individual arena.
- Imagología: un emblema holandés del siglo XVIII sobre la imagen del español(2009) Amaral, RubemEl presente artículo analiza el emblema «De Spanjaart» [«El español»] del libro StichtelykZinnebeelden [Emblemas edificantes] de Arnold Houbraken y GezineBrit (Amsterdam, 1723) a la luz de los estereotipos que sobre la imagen de los españoles prevalecían por entonces en Holanda y en el contexto de la disciplina de la Imagología.
