Hyman, Aaron Michael (2023). Así repiten aún las piedras’: Juan de Roelas, Seville of 1615, and the City as Substrate (Unpublished). In: ARTES 2023 Nigel Glendinning lecture.
n 1615, Seville erupted with fervent debates about the question of the Virgin’s Immaculacy. Clergymen hoping to sway the hearts and minds of both everyday supplicants and the religious powers that be took to the streets. The main mode by which clerics tested and contested ideas about Immaculacy was through the written word. “No plaza, no fortification, no street,” as one period source describes, was free from pamphlets and broadsheets that alternatively lambasted or defended this theological tenet. Amid this turmoil, the Spanish-Flemish cleric and painter Juan de Roelas produced a massive painting covered in texts of all sorts. This talk parses the picture’s many inscriptions not simply for their content but for their formal and material aspects, coordinating these against campaigns of the written word that were staged across the city’s surfaces. Doing so reveals the painting to be a carefully constructed message about the potentials and the power of particular types of textual objects and of the city itself—its very stones—to serve as a substrate capable of receiving inscription.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Art History > Ancient and Medieval Art History |
UniBE Contributor: |
Hyman, Aaron Michael |
Subjects: |
700 Arts |
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English |
Submitter: |
Irina Dudar |
Date Deposited: |
03 Apr 2024 14:15 |
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03 Apr 2024 14:15 |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/195593 |
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