Publication: De lo erótico en “la virtud”. El placer de mirar a la mujer en la pintura moderna
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Rodríguez Serrano, Carmen
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Ediciones Universidad Autónoma de Chile / Enredars-Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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El presente texto pretende ser una aproximación al análisis de la figura sexualizada de la mujer dentro del marco del arte cristiano, a través de una selección de pintura religiosa de los siglos XVI y XVII. Las representaciones femeninas extraídas del Antiguo y del Nuevo Testamento, han sido muy frecuentes en la Historia del Arte, teniendo un número importante de ellas, un carácter profundamente sensual y erótico, donde el gusto del cliente y la complacencia del pintor prevalecen incluso sobre las limitaciones morales, en el ámbito privado. De este modo, pasajes como el de las hijas de Lot o diferentes martirios de santas, entre otros, lejos de evidenciar la virtud y el sacrificio y manifestarlo mediante sus atributos iconográficos, se convierten en instrumentos para satisfacer al espectador mediante el placer de mirar la obra.
This text aims to be an approach to the analysis of the sexualized figure of women within the framework of Christian art, through a selection of religious painting from the 16th and 17th centuries. Female representations taken from both the Old and New Testaments have been very common in the History of Art, with a significant number of them, as will be revealed, of a deeply sensual and erotic character, where the taste of the client and the pleasure of the painter prevail over moral limitations. In this way, passages such as that of Lot’s daughters or different martyrdoms of saints, among others, far from evidencing virtue and sacrifice and manifesting it through their iconographic attributes, become instruments to satisfy the viewer through the pleasure of look at the work.
This text aims to be an approach to the analysis of the sexualized figure of women within the framework of Christian art, through a selection of religious painting from the 16th and 17th centuries. Female representations taken from both the Old and New Testaments have been very common in the History of Art, with a significant number of them, as will be revealed, of a deeply sensual and erotic character, where the taste of the client and the pleasure of the painter prevail over moral limitations. In this way, passages such as that of Lot’s daughters or different martyrdoms of saints, among others, far from evidencing virtue and sacrifice and manifesting it through their iconographic attributes, become instruments to satisfy the viewer through the pleasure of look at the work.




