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Intacta María
The exhibition analyses the process through which devotion to the Immaculate conception was created and popularised in early modern Spain. While the Immaculate Conception only became dogma in 1854, as early as 1616 the Spanish Monarchy became a staunch supporter of the theory, turning its defence into a national priority. In the following years, the Immaculate Conception became Spain's most heartfelt devotion and a sign of national identity. Art played an important role in this process, amounting to what we may describe as a marketing campaign. This will be the focus of the Museo de Bellas Artes' forthcoming exhibition, featuring more than 50 paintings, sculptures, prints and books borrowed from notable Spanish museums and churches such as the Museo Nacional de Escultura de Valladolid, the Cathedral of Seville, the Biblioteca Nacional de España, and many others.
Jews and Muslims Made Visible in Christian Iberia and Beyond, 14th to 18th Centuries
This volume aims to show through various case studies how the interrelations between Jews, Muslims and Christians in Iberia were negotiated in the field of images, objects and architecture during the Later Middle Ages and Early Modernity.
Living on the Edge
This volume addresses the widespread medieval phenomenon of transgression as both a result of and the cause for the exclusion and persecution of those who were considered different. It is widely accepted that the essence of a manuscript cannot be fully grasped without studying its marginalia. Glosses sit on the margins of the text and clarify it, adding a whole new dimension to it and becoming an inextricable part of its content. Similarly, no society can be fully understood without knowledge of what lies on its margins, for the outliers of any given culture provide us with just as much information as its alleged foundational principles. In a time when the Western world ponders building walls up against perceived threats and frightening differences, this multidisciplinary collection of essays based on original and innovative pieces of research shows that it was mostly through tearing down walls that we learned our way forward.
Tomb – Memory – Space
From an intercultural perspective, this book focuses on aesthetic strategies and forms of representation in premodern Christian and Islamic sepulchral art. Seeing the tomb as an interface for eschatological, political, and artistic debate, the contributions analyze the diversity of memorial space configurations. The subjects range from the complex interaction between architecture and tomb topography through to questions relating to the funereal expression of power and identity, and to practices of ritual realization in the context of individual and collective memory.
Royal Divine Coronation Iconography in the Medieval Euro-Mediterranean Area
In the last decades, historians and art historians have created an active historiographical debate about one of the most fascinating and studied iconographic themes of the Middle Ages: the royal divine coronation. Indeed, in the specific case of some Ottonian and Salian illuminations, it has been proposed that their function was not only political or to legitimize power, as traditionally suggested (Herrscherbilder), but also liturgical and religious (Memorialbilder). This has led to a complete rethinking of the meaning of this iconographic theme: the divine coronation of the king would not symbolically allude to his earthly power but to the wholly devotional hope of receiving the crown of et...
A Companion to the Queenship of Isabel la Católica
The queenship of the first European Renaissance queen regnant never ceases to fascinate. As fascists to feminists fight over Isabel’s legacy, we ask which recyclings of her image are legitimate or appropriate. Or has this figure taken on a life of her own?
Retablos, prestigio y dinero
Des de la segona meitat del segle XIV, València inicià un progressiu ascens social i econòmic que es va plasmar artísticament en l'arribada de mestres pintors de diverses procedències, cosa que va donar lloc a la realització d'obres d'art d'una gran qualitat en un ambient molt favorable. És l'inici i punt de referència de l'anomenat Segle d'Or valencià. Aquest llibre se centra en l'anàlisi del període del gòtic internacional a València des d'una àmplia perspectiva, i estudia l'aparició i la trajectòria de cadascun dels grans pintors o els patrons que van consolidar València com un important focus del gòtic internacional en la Mediterrània. A més de l'originalitat de l'enfocament utilitzat, les novetats documentals són una de les claus del llibre, ja que llancen una llum major i obren camins per a desxifrar el complex panorama artístic de la València del 1400
La cartoixa de Portaceli (1272-2022)
Portaceli, degana de les cartoixes hispanes, va viure la seua esplendor al segle XV, quan es va convertir en una de les més influents del regne de València i, fins i tot, de la Corona d’Aragó, la qual cosa va enriquir el seu patrimoni arquitectònic i artístic. Per commemorar el 750 aniversari d’una institució que encara està viva i serveix als mateixos objectius i finalitats pels quals fou fundada –segueix regint-se per les ‘Consuetudines Cartusiae’, les normes establertes al segle XII–, es presenta un recull d’una vintena d’estudis ‘ad hoc’ bastits per investigadors de distinta procedència acadèmica, els quals versen sobre variades temàtiques al voltant de Portaceli, des de l’estudi del seu ric patrimoni i la seua història, fins a formes de posar-la en valor i donar-la a conèixer mitjançant les noves tecnologies. Una contribució excepcional per al seu coneixement que enriqueix les monografies dedicades fins ara a aquesta cartoixa.
