Cervantes and the pictorial imagination

Ana María G. Laguna

"This book examines Cervantes's participation in the ongoing aesthetic debates and conflicts that preoccupied both writers and visual artists of the Renaissance. At the forefront were explorations into the impossible representation of beauty, the use of art propaganda, and the theological implications of the image. Reflections on these topics pervade Cervantes's work, and ultimately denote the multiple dimensions of imagery in the 500s." "In a period when literal and metaphorical battles were fought over the power of images, divergent conceptions of aesthetics define the artistic and theological principles of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. This religious and aesthetic discord channeled the rich and complex relationship between Northern and Southern Europe. While Spain anxiously attempted to equal Italian cultural splendor, it was a country dominated by the ruling tastes of...

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