Descripción del proyecto
Un análisis más detallado de cómo las imágenes codifican emociones
¿Cómo se construyeron las identidades europeas a principios de la Edad Moderna? ¿Qué tipo de paradigmas o patrones narrativos y visuales (pinturas y grabados) se diseñaron en las comunidades ibéricas y católicas durante los siglos XVI y XVII? ¿Cómo se utilizaron para fomentar los ideales fundamentales de la comunidad? El proyecto COMCON, financiado con fondos europeos, busca responder a estas preguntas. Estudiará cómo los temas iconográficos y los contextos históricos expresan valores comunitarios. Examinará el mecenazgo, las redes culturales y los grupos sociales representados en las obras de arte. Los hallazgos arrojarán luz sobre cómo las imágenes codifican emociones. En concreto, el proyecto COMCON mostrará cómo se seleccionó y proyectó el imaginario europeo en todo el mundo para fomentar una idea determinada de «comunidad emocional».
Objetivo
The project aims to uncover case studies and connections that shed light on how European identities were constructed in the early modern period. It focuses on visual and narrative paradigms/patterns—in paintings and prints—devised in Catholic and Iberian contexts between the 16th and 17th centuries and used to advance key community ideals, such as cohesion, enthusiasm and concord. In order to explore how iconographic themes and historical contexts express community bonds and values, it also deeply examines patronage, cultural networks and social groups—confraternities, religious orders and political authorities—represented in the works of art. In the process, it interrogates how the power of images served to codify emotions. It focuses on images of the triumphant and merciful church, ideal to create consensus and affiliation with the Iberian imperial and Catholic canons. It furthermore studies how these visual paradigms were transferred outside Europe, particularly in the Iberian Americas. By analysing how artistic (and social) patterns were applied and re-elaborated in new transnational contexts, the project will make a significant contribution to scholarship on how European imagery was selected and projected around the world to promote a particular idea of “emotional community”, initially as part of Rome's response to the Protestant Reformation and later as a strategy to gain new believers and subjects in New Spain. It will also explore how a normative and strategic representation of the emotions was employed—and is still used in some cases—in the politics of evangelization to shape, transmit and dictate ideal social characteristics of communities.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
40126 Bologna
Italia