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  1. Metaphors and symbols in Art History

    José María SALVADOR GONZÁLEZ, Matheus Corassa da SILVA

    Original title: Metáforas e símbolos na História da Arte

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  2. Imagining Middle Ages: medieval images

    José María SALVADOR GONZÁLEZ

    Original title: Imaginando la Edad Media: imágenes medievales

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  3. The rendering of Christ in the Temple icon of the Theotokos: a gaze from the fourth century. Part two

    Elena ENE D-VASILESCU

    Original title: The rendering of Christ in the Temple icon of the Theotokos: a gaze from the fourth century. Part two

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    Keywords: Christ, Egypt, Fourth century AD, Icon, Mary, Theotokos.

  4. Femininity in tension. Iconographic itineraries from Tellus to the woman on the beast of the Turin Beatus (12th century)

    Nadia Mariana CONSIGLIERI

    Original title: Lo femenino en tensión. Recorridos iconográficos de Tellus a la mujer sobre la bestia del Beato de Turín (siglo XII)

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    Keywords: Greco-Roman formulas, Lust, Manticore, Tellus, The Prostitute of Babylon and the beast, Turin Beatus.

  5. 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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    Keywords: Annunciation, Christianity, Fra Filippo Lippi, Mariology, Medieval iconography, Patristics.

  6. The serpent, the real sinner?

    Sheila ADÁN LLEDÍN

    Original title: La serpiente, ¿la verdadera pecadora?

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    Keywords: Evil, Iconography, Image, Middle Ages, Original Sin, Serpent, Woman.

  7. The Kingdom of God in Church Fathers in the 4th century

    Eirini ARTEMI

    Original title: The Kingdom of God in Church Fathers in the 4th century

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    Keywords: Ambrose of Milan, Divine Beauty, Gregory of Nyssa, Jesus Christ, John Chrysostom, Kingdom of God, Lord’s Prayer.

  8. The figure of the child in genre scenes according to Murillo (1617-1682)

    Luna DUEÑAS ARROYO

    Original title: La figura del niño en escenas de género según Murillo (1617-1682)

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    Keywords: Baroque, Children, Genre scenes, Murillo., Sevilla.

  9. CUENCA, Luis Alberto de y ELVIRA, Miguel Ángel (eds.). Voyeurs del arte grecorromano. Imágenes de Filóstrato el Viejo y Filóstrato el Joven, Descripciones de Calístrato. Madrid: Ed. Reino de Cordelia, 2019, ISBN 978-84-16968-70-1.

    Ana VALTIERRA LACALLE

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  10. Letting the wolf in: the duality of human and animal, inclusion and exclusion and the crossing of these boundaries of the werewolves in Gerald of Wales’ Topographia Hibernica

    Julia van ROSMALEN

    Original title: Letting the wolf in: the duality of human and animal, inclusion and exclusion and the crossing of these boundaries of the werewolves in Gerald of Wales’ Topographia Hibernica

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    Keywords: Boundaries, Depiction of the other, Duality, Eucharist theory, Form and nature, Inclusion and exclusion, Liminality, Monsters and hybrids, Transformation.

    This article shows, using a close analysis of the images and text, that despite the initial association with ‘Othering’ and monstrousness, the werewolves from the Topographia Hibernica are not a perfect Other but rather assimilated into the community. They represent a transgression between the boundaries of the human and the animal that renders them porous and allows for movement between the two and an interplay of inclusion and exclusion. The werewolves aren’t hybrids in form or nature, but rather show a discordance between form and nature: They are perfectly animal in appearance and perfectly human in nature. The deliberate parallel with theory of form and nature in the eucharist which plays a central role in both the conclusion of the story, the final image and the authors theological discourse on transformation shows that the final verdict on the wolves is one of sameness rather than otherness.

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