ICONOGRAFIA DEL PRESTIGIO: LA ESCULTURA GOTICA MONUMENTAL DEL CONVENTO DE SANTO TOMAS DE AVILA EN EL CONTEXTO INQUISITORIAL HISPANO

  • Sonia Caballero Escamilla
Keywords: Saint Thomas of Ávila, sculpture, propaganda, Torquemada, Catholic Monarchs, Inquisition

Abstract

Analysis of the different sculptural groups at the Convent of Saint Thomas of Ávila, one of the landmarks of the Spanish Late Gothic, reveals how the iconography of this church, which was ultimately under the control of Torquemada, has a clear propagandistic intention: the various images of prophets and saints, in addition to the direct and indirect allusions to the Catholic Monarchs, are fundamentally aimed at praising inquisitorial politics, the crusade of orthodoxy in the face of heresy.

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Caballero Escamilla S. (2009). ICONOGRAFIA DEL PRESTIGIO: LA ESCULTURA GOTICA MONUMENTAL DEL CONVENTO DE SANTO TOMAS DE AVILA EN EL CONTEXTO INQUISITORIAL HISPANO. Res Publica. Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas, 18. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RPUB/article/view/46249
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No. 18 (2007): Vísperas de la modernidad: El poder en la Baja Edad Media
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Comunicaciones

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