Un precedente del microrrelato en la pintura del siglo XV: Discursos paralelos en los trípticos de los Primitivos Flamencos.

Author(s):  
María Rodríguez Velasco

La revolución pictórica que impulsan los primitivos flamencos en el siglo XV implica una renovación de sus repertorios y esquemas compositivos, sumando a la perfección técnica del óleo una gran riqueza de significados en sus obras. El diseño de los trípticos, al modo de los pórticos monumentales de las iglesias y catedrales del medioevo, podría equiparase a los microrrelatos literarios, en la medida que los pintores componen narraciones pictóricas a partir de la suma de pequeñas escenas trabajadas en grisalla. Estos episodios, expuestos secuencialmente, responden fundamentalmente a una fuente primaria, la Biblia, si bien en muchos casos su interpretación remite a otros escritos de la tradición cristiana y la teología medieval que enriquecen su interpretación y explican la unidad del conjunto. La creación de microrrelatos plásticos se concreta en el “Tríptico de Miraflores”, de Rogier van der Weyden, el “Tríptico de la Virgen”, de Dieric Bouts y el “Tríptico de la Redención”, de Vrancke van der Stockt, quienes aúnan caracteres narrativos y simbólicos para mayor expresividad de sus microrrelatos plásticos.

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-139
Author(s):  
Kevin N. Moll

College-level courses devoted to Renaissance culture typically put a premium on incorporating primary sources and artifacts of a literary, art-historical, and historical nature. Yet the monuments of contemporaneous music continue to be marginalized as instructional resources, even though they are fully as worthy both from an aesthetic and from a historical standpoint. This study attempts to address that problem by invoking the tradition of early polyphonic masses on L’homme armé – a secular tune used as a unifying melody (cantus firmus) throughout settings of the five-movement liturgical cycle. Beginning by explaining the origins and significance of the putative monophonic tune, the paper then details how a series of composers utilized the song in interestingly varied ways in various mass settings. Subsequently it sketches out a context for mysticism in the liturgical-musical tradition of L’homme armé, and points to some compelling parallels with the contemporaneous art of panel painting, specifically as represented in the works of Rogier van der Weyden.


2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-108
Author(s):  
Francis-Noël Thomas

Art Journal ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 180
Author(s):  
James Douglas Farquhar ◽  
Martin Davies

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Lesley K. Twomey

This article examines one of Juana of Castile’s books of hours (London, BL Add. MS 18852) comparing it with those written for members of Juana’s family and seeking to discern how it was used, in order to reassess her peers’ evaluation of her spiritual affinities. It considers how Juana customized her book of hours with a miniature of the Virgin and Child, comparing it with a gifted panel painted by Rogier van der Weyden that Juana treasured to show how she placed herself under the protection of the Virgin. Numbered precepts would be intended for her to instruct any future children and are replicated in Isabel, her daughter’s, book. The office of the Guardian Angel is compared with similar ones in Spain and Burgundy and, like devotion to St Veronica, such prayer is another means of protection. The striking mirror of conscience with its reflected skull, like other similar objects decorated with a skull that Juana possessed, sought to lift her from the decay and sinfulness of the world to the spiritual realm.


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