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The Vision of the Colors. Material and Symbolic Effects between Originality and Likeness
Ángel PAZOS LÓPEZ, José María SALVADOR GONZÁLEZ
Original title: La visualidad de los colores. Efectos materiales y simbólicos entre la originalidad y la semejanza
Published in Mirabilia Journal 31 (2020/2)
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Presentation Saint Jerome: Life, Works and Reception
Inmaculada DELGADO JARA, Miguel Anxo PENA GONZÁLEZ
Original title: Presentación San Jerónimo: vida, obra y recepción
Published in Mirabilia Journal 31 (2020/2)
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Cultural Legacy and Professional Values in Method of Medicine Book I, by Galen (129-217)
Hélio Angotti-Neto
Original title: Legado cultural e valores profissionais no Livro I de Método da Medicina, de Galeno (129-217)
Published in Mirabilia Journal 31 (2020/2)
Keywords: Galen, Hippocrates, History of Medicine, Medical Education, Medical Ethics.
This work translates excerpts from Book I of the work Method of Medicine, by the ancient doctor Galen. In its content, aspects related to the transmission of knowledge to the next generation of professionals and the necessary attention to the moral elements of the profession, which must permeate the practice and its transmission, are discussed.
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Graphic derision in Ancient Egypt
Manuel ÁLVAREZ JUNCO
Original title: Lúdica y burla gráfica en el Antiguo Egipto
Published in Mirabilia Journal 31 (2020/2)
Keywords: Art, Caricature, Egypt, Graphic derision, Iconography.
The hieratic image of the Egypt of the pharaoh’s art has its counterpart in a series of playful works and mocking graphic realizations that discover the transgressive side of this influential civilization. This research analyzes the meaning of images with parodies, caricatures and satirical figures as well as highlight the worship of some divinities of the playful and informal, which provide a counterpoint to the severe and strict culture of the Nile. It aims, in short, to be a reflective note on the sense of humour since ancient times.
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From Aristotle to Castel: Intertextual Relationships between the color of the sound and the sound of the color – affections and synesthesia
Antonio Celso RIBEIRO
Original title: De Aristóteles a Castel: relações intertextuais entre a cor do som e o som da cor – afetos e sinestesia
Published in Mirabilia Journal 31 (2020/2)
Keywords: Aristotle, Castel, Color, Music, Semiotics, Synesthesia.
The aim of the present work is to analyse the intertextual relationships between musical notes and colours and its ramifications under the point of view of emotions, humors, and science. The research will comprise the historical period starting in ancient Greece with Aristotle, ending in Baroque with French mathematician Louis Bertrand-Castel (1688-1757). Thus, it will take in assumption that music and colors are correlate languages, and we will support the analysis in considering scientific concepts and semiotic approachs and the concept of migration of meanings (synesthesias).
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The cosmological and alchemical path of seven colors (haft rang) in the Haft paykar of Niẓāmī Ganǧawī (m. ca. 570-610/1174-1222)
Antoni GONZALO CARBÓ
Original title: La senda cosmológica y alquímica de siete colores (haft rang) en el Haft paykar de Niẓāmī Ganǧawī (m. ca. 570-610/1174-1222)
Published in Mirabilia Journal 31 (2020/2)
Keywords: Alchemy, Color, Niẓāmī Ganǧawī, Persian Mystical Poetry, Psychospiritual Anthropology.
From a miniature belonging to a magnificent Iskandar Anthology (Persia, Šīrāz, 1410-11, folio 66v; Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation), the cosmology, the symbolism of the seven colors (haft rang) and the alchemical progression are analyzed in the mystical tale Haft paykar (Seven princesses) by the Persian poet Abū Md. Ilyās b. Yūsuf Niẓāmī Ganǧawī (d. ca. 570-610 / 1174-1222). This inner path of transmutation through colors (ch.:pp.: black: HP26:180-181; yellow: HP27:196-197; green: HP28:214; red: HP29:234; blue: HP30:266-267; sandalwood: HP31:291 and white: HP32:315) ends, in tune with the Iranian tradition (Mazdeism, Zoroastrianism, išrāqī illuminative wisdom), with the color white, symbol of the purity of the soul and enlightenment.
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The corporeal and the ethereal: the abstraction of color in Fra Angelico
Águeda ASENJO BEJARANO
Original title: Lo corpóreo y lo etéreo: la abstracción del color en Fra Angélico
Published in Mirabilia Journal 31 (2020/2)
Keywords: Abstraction, Color, Fra Angelico, Marble, Originality, Plasticity, Quattrocento.
With this study I intend to carry out a plastic and pictorial analysis of the work of the famous quattrocentist author Fra Angelico from the details that the Italian painter captured in his works where he combined colors in a totally heterogeneous way as watercolor surfaces, which recall and emulate to small abstract paintings generating an interconnection between the author’s innate creativity and his context. These fragments are like fields soaked in water and the colors flashes of pigment that spread across the canvas. He experimented with color and its possibilities within the painting, since although many authors define it as marbles, its originality and uniqueness are undoubted.
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Colors in the work of Nicholas of Cusa
Marica COSTIGLIOLO
Original title: I colori nell’opera di Niccolò Cusano
Published in Mirabilia Journal 31 (2020/2)
Keywords: Art, Colors, Middle Ages, Nicholas of Cusa, Perception.
When we think about colour and its meanings, we must consider the historical path that colours have gone through, and how they have changed over the course of history. Until the seventeenth century, those who dealt with the perception of colour mainly analyzed its nature, its organization in a system of relationships. From Newton onwards, the understanding of colour is analyzed starting from the relationship of the mechanisms of vision and perception. In Nicholas of Cusa work, we find both perspectives. On the one hand, Cusanus is interested in the mechanism of sight, on the other hand there are numerous metaphors with light and divine light. The philosopher's discourse therefore addresses both an analysis of the mechanism of perception and a broader discourse that becomes a theological and mystical metaphor. In this sense, his work proves to be a rich source also in the context of the history of colours and in general in the history of art.
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Rhythms and contrast: Color and Body in the illuminated manuscripts of Loyset Liédet (1420-1479)
Vinícius Saebel LEMOS
Original title: Ritmos e contrastes: cor e corpo nas iluminuras de Loyset Liédet (1420-1479)
Published in Mirabilia Journal 31 (2020/2)
Keywords: Art flamand, Illuminations, Loyset Liédet, Moyen Âge.
Cet article vise à analyser les expressions imagées des corps et des couleurs dans leurs rythmes et leurs contrastes. Dans une sélection d'enluminures de l'artiste Loyset Liédet (1420-1479) dans les Chroniques (MS Bnf 2643) de Jean Froissart (1337-1405), outre l'aspect formel, cette œuvre passe par les manifestations des éléments Couleur et Corps comme preuve d'un permanence de ces thèmes dans l'Histoire de l'Art et comme occurrence ponctuelle de l'époque médiévale. Les niveaux de compréhension de l'image, explorés par Erwin Panosfsky (1892-1968), sont ici exposés et développés dans leurs couches jusqu'au niveau des valeurs symboliques dans lesquelles les couleurs ont joué un rôle substantiel. Après tout, les enluminures ont joué ce rôle: apporter la lumière – ou apporter de la lumière – au manuscrit un fait ou une imagerie narrative présentée aux yeux de l'observateur à travers les couleurs. Les enluminures, dans cet article, initient l'une des Chroniques qui rapportent les actes de la Guerre de Cent Ans qui a commencé en 1337 entre la France et l'Angleterre, un événement qui a duré jusqu'à la décoloration du Moyen Âge, mais qui une fois passé à la plume et à l'encre sur le terrain das Artes, a servi à splendide toute la vigueur du Gothique Tardif et l'élan de l'Art Flamand naissant.
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The evolution of color in Charles V’s portraits and its relationship with the imperial propaganda strategy: contributions from Titian
Carlos Jesús SOSA RUBIO, José Antonio MUÑIZ-VELÁZQUEZ
Original title: La evolución del color en la retratística carolina y su relación con la estrategia propagandística imperial: aportaciones de Tiziano
Published in Mirabilia Journal 31 (2020/2)
Keywords: Charles V, Maiestas, Portraiture, Propaganda, Titian.
The importance of the court portrait is decisive to understand the painting of the 16th century in its correct artistic and propaganda dimensions. Charles V was born into a family with very clear ideas in this regard. In him, as in few men and women in history, an evolution from the local factor to the global reality is perceived, which is reflection and consequence at the same time of a life that took him from the County of Flanders to being the most powerful ruler in the world. This paper analyzes the evolution of his effigy in the light of those events, as well as the role played by color in its consolidation, focusing in a special way on the contributions of Titian, the great architect of the imperial image that has survived to this day.
