¡A esta santa Bárbara jamás me encomendé! : los giros de la iconografía de santa Bárbara en la Nueva Granada / Francisco González López.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

González López, Francisco, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Ciencias humanas

Ciencias Humanas

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Barbara, Saint--Art--History.

Barbara.

Painting, Colonial--Colombia.

Painting, Colonial.

Christian art and symbolism.

Saints in art.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 154 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.

Edition:

Primera edición.

Other Title:

Giros de la iconografía de santa Bárbara en la Nueva Granada /

A esta santa Bárbara jamás me encomendé

Place of Publication:

Bogotá, D.C. : Editorial Universidad del Rosario, 2020.

Language Note:

In Spanish.

Summary:

In the development of the process of colonization of Hispanic America, the Crown directed its batteries through the propagation of the faith. An instrument of persuasion that used the rhetoric of the images of the saints of the early times as a model to follow to achieve salvation, mainly aimed at the illiterate people of the new territories. In this context, the legend of Saint Barbara was highlighted as one of the most important in the consolidation of Christianity. However, the image with its traditional attributes of the tower, the chalice and the sword, of common figuration in Medieval Europe, underwent a substantial transformation in some temples of the current Region of Cundiboyacense where it was represented both in painting and sculpture, at the time of the ordeal of cutting her breasts. A fact not recorded in the primitive hagiography of the defender of thunder and patroness of the good death and hard work. Through a chronological and iconographic analysis of 220 images of Saint Barbara made between the 15th and 18th centuries, it was sought, in the first place, to establish the conventional representation and its variations, in addition to its distribution in Europe and America. Then, hypotheses were formulated about the conditions that accompanied the Neo-Granada artist Gaspar de Figueroa, his descendants, and almost a century later, the sculptor Pedro Laboria in the execution of the image of the so-called Baroque saint Barbara.

Contents:

Introducción

Apropiaciones de la imagen de santa Bárbara en América

Una sinopsis de la leyenda

Santa Bárbara: atributos y patronatos

Reafirmando las excepciones iconográficas

La huella tridentina en la Nueva Granada

¿Adaptaciones locales de santa Águeda?

Los vecinos de la parroquia de Santa Bárbara

Santa Bárbara en las capillas doctrineras

Y al final, las mismas preguntas.

Una aproximación a los signos y atributos presentes en la imagen de santa Bárbara

Anexo. Listado de textos revisados para la búsqueda de imágenes de santa Bárbara.

Notes:

Includes glossary (pages 131-142)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-152)

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9789587844498

9587844491

OCLC:

1311087851