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Staging the leader’s divinity. Introduction
Mirko VAGNONI
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Schemata’s interchangeability and inter-functionality of Schemata in Themes with Variations of Mozart’s Sonatas for Piano and Violin
Ernesto HARTMANN, Aline Mendonça PEREIRA, Gabriel Azevedo GUERRA
Original title: Intercambialidade e interfuncionalidade das Schemata nos Temas com Variações das Sonatas para Piano e Violino de Mozart
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In this article we examine in Theme and Variations set of the Sonatas for Piano and Violin by W. A. Mozart (1756-1791) the relations between Schemata’s interchange, interpolation and inter-functionality. For this, we analyze the schematic composition of each movement, paying attention to the substitutions that the composer makes. In the theoretical basis we dialogue with the authors who discuss the relationship between Topic and Schemata. The work is structured as follows: conceptualization of Schemata, brief discussion about the problem of relationship between Schemata and Topic, analysis of selected works and final considerations. It is concluded that the functionality of each Schema, concept implied by Gjerdingen, is the way to understand the logic that regulates the substitutions observed in the works.
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The Cantigas de Santa Maria of King Afonso X (13th century). Cantiga 84: religious orders and aedificationes
Bárbara DANTAS
Original title: As Cantigas de Santa Maria do rei Afonso X (século XIII). Cantiga 84: as ordens religiosas e as aedificationes
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This work aims to show the importance of medieval religious orders for the realization of architectural works in the medieval period. The main source of this study is not an architectural work in itself, but a codex. Both in images and texts, this book delights us with many references to architectural works. It is the Cantigas de Santa Maria of King Afonso X. A compendium of the 13th century formed by about 420 songs recorded in Galician-Portuguese through rhythmic verses. The songs are “illuminated” by hundreds of historical full-page illuminations that represent in images what the text says in words. Cantiga 84 is the driving force behind this brief survey of some buildings that marked the Middle Ages and still enchant the world.
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The Annunciation in Fra Filippo Lippi: interpreting some symbolic variants
José María SALVADOR GONZÁLEZ
Original title: The Annunciation in Fra Filippo Lippi: interpreting some symbolic variants
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The medieval ruin in Caspar David Friedrich’s landscapes
Mar LLOPIS ORIVE
Original title: La ruina medieval en los paisajes de Caspar David Friedrich
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Romanticism brings along the revaluation of medieval art, especially of Gothic architecture, until then denied and despised. From this will echo romantic paintings, in which the representation of medieval ruins will become commonplace. Friedrich (1774-1840) is the most paradigmatic artist of this particular context, and therefore, our study will focus on his work.
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Rembrandt, painter of the Old Testament scenes: Samson’s stories
Alejandro ELIZALDE GARCÍA
Original title: Rembrandt, pintor de escenas veterotestamentarias: historias de Sansón
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The scientific investigations carried out during the last century aimed to address the influence that Calvinism, religion emerged during the sixteenth century as a response to the corrupt ecclesiastical institution, exercised in the various areas – social, economic and artistic – of the Republic of the Seven Provinces of the North. However, Calvinism does not help to fully understand the religious scenes produced by Hamerszoon Rijn van Rembrandt. This architect, formed in an environment of freedom of worship, halfway between the Reformed Church and the Christian Church, maintained throughout his life friendship with Jews, men of great culture and great weight in society. These relationships, along with their own life experiences, modulated their sacred scenes. Especially interesting is the analysis of the canvases painted during the 1930s and focusing on the figure of Samson, hero of the Old Testament. These compositions, milestones in the career of the painter, are still wrapped in a halo of mystery, especially with respect to his commission. In addition, these allow us to know the way in which Rembrandt composed his works, using either textual or visual sources close to his space and time or completely distant to him.
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Gender perspectives: implementation of sociological methodology to Old Testament’s images of the 17th century
Irene BARRENO GARCÍA
Original title: Las perspectivas del género: aplicación de la metodología sociológica a imágenes veterotestamentarias del siglo XVII
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The collective religious and artistic imagery of the seventeenth century is a fundamental point of study at the sociological level, since it shows thoughts and models that governed life in community of the time. For this reason, a study of these images is proposed in this paper with the aim of defending the following thesis: it is possible, with the tools provided by the main historians of art of the sociological school (such as Antal, Francastel, Hadjinicolaou or Hauser), argue that the use of one type or another of images of biblical women (positive or negative) may vary according to gender, understood as a social construct, of the subject performing the representation. In this way, works made by female and male painters will be contrasted on the basis of thematic blocks: Judith beheading Holofernes, Susana and the Elders, Jael and Sisera and Samson and Delilah. Each of the themes, as you can see, presents a conflicting episode that has as protagonists a duo formed by a man and a woman. In this way the opposing positions between the two genders will be much more evident, depending on the hand of the painter.
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Figure and meaning of Venus in the artwork of Botticelli
Laura CASADO BALLESTEROS
Original title: Figura y significado de Venus en la obra de Botticelli
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The representation of Venus in Botticelli’s painting has always been present, not only to reflect the goddess as another image, but as a representation in which the painter goes beyond the mythological theme that the goddess occupies, reflecting a whole series of elements that are part of the world of the symbol. As well as the importance of the philosophical lessons of Neoplatonic character in the subject that occupies to us, that already were object of debate in this epoch and will be us of great utility to establish a correct and coherent interpretation of the hidden message of these mythological works.
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The funeral banquet: iconographic analysis
Irene BENITO GONZÁLEZ
Original title: El banquete funerario: análisis iconográfico
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The present article proposes an iconographic analysis through a series of images around the motive of the funeral banquet. This scene is enormously recurrent in the burials of Ancient Egypt, being one of the most important. The identification of this scene is given thanks to three key representations: the food, the dance along with the musical accompaniment, and the smell. In short, the scene of the funeral banquet is inevitably related to the idea of reaching a prosperous life after death.
