José María Salvador-González

Complutense University of Madrid | UCM · Department of History of Art

Análisis estilístico y conceptual de cada una de las obras pictóricas de Picasso exhibidas en 1992 en la exposición del Centro Cultural Consolidado de Caracas. Los análisis se complementan con un texto introductorio general sobre la trayectoria artística de Picasso, y una breve biografía del artista.

Amplio diálogo con el artista sobre sus presupuestos estético-estilísticos, así como sobre sus intervenciones en el contexto urbano y arquitectónico en diversos países de Europa y América.

Biografía documentada del pintor, incluyendo sus períodos estilísticos, sus series temáticas, sus principales obras y y sus exposiciones más importantes. El segundo texto recoge casi todas las publicaciones (libros generales, monografías, catálogos, artículos, entrevistas, etc.) hechas sobre la obra y la personalidad del artista.

Estudio historiográfico en fuentes primarias sobre el proceso de levantamiento y destrucción de dos estatuas monumentales de dicho presidente de Venezuela durante su hegemonía en el país.

This article seeks to shed light on the approach of Saint Bonaventure of Bagnoregio (1217/21–1274) on the highly problematic issue of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. In a context of heated debates on the matter, Saint Bonaventure presents a long and complex set of arguments that we can summarize as follows: Mary was conceived with ori...

The conspicuous Franciscan thinker Saint Bonaventure of Bagnoregio develops his personal Aesthetics in his book Itinerarium mentis in Deum (1259). This consists essentially in an ascent of man to God through three successive phases, each of them divided into two levels. This article seeks to analyze the first of those three phases in which our auth...

This article aims to highlight the privileged status granted by Christianity to the Virgin Mary when considering her the Queen of Heaven. From the very early centuries of our era, this sublime title was assigned to the Virgin Mary, for her condition of Mother of God, by an increasing number of Church Fathers and theologians. Later, it was expounded...

This article aims to highlight the rich doctrinal meanings underlying the textual and iconic designation of the Virgin Mary as the gate of Heaven, a highly brilliant metaphor used by writers and artists to symbolize her saving mediation before her divine Son on behalf of humankind. To justify our interpretations of this textual and iconic symbol, w...

This article aims to iconographically interpret the doctrinal meanings of the divine ray of light passing through a window in images of the Annunciation from the 14th and 15th centuries. To achieve this purpose, I analyze firstly a large corpus of texts by which numerous Church Fathers, theologians, and medieval hymnographers decipher several metap...

This article seeks to shed light on the doctrinal meanings of the closed garden included in some Renaissance paintings of the Annunciation. To justify the iconographic interpretations that we will give of these paintings, we will base them on the analysis of many medieval liturgical hymns that poetically designate the Virgin Mary through the metaph...

This paper is limited to highlight a selection of exegetical comments through which, from the 6th century until the 12th, many Latin Church Fathers and theologians deciphered the eastern shut door of the temple (porta clausa) revealed by Yahweh to Ezekiel in a prophetic vision. This short study's select set of comments is complemented by a plentifu...

This article tries to highlight the deep doctrinal meanings underlying the vase that is often included in artistic depictions of the Annunciation. This apparently banal everyday object has been deliberately placed there in a prominent position to symbolize the Virgin Mary in her condition as the virginal mother of God the Son, and the bearer of all...

This article highlights the artistic and conceptual relevance of the iconographic type of the Coronation of Mary in Italy during the Late Middle Ages and Early Modernity. We have analyzed 14 Italian Renaissance paintings, aiming to discover the possible doctrinal sources that inspire them. From a conceptual perspective, we have specified that the i...

De entre el ingente corpus teórico del pensador franciscano San Buenaventura de Bagnoregio, hemos focalizado aquí nuestra atención sobre el libro titulado Itinerarium mentis in Deum (1259), porque en él nuestro autor condensa el núcleo esencial de su peculiar Estética. Restringiendo aún más el enfoque investigador, en el presente artículo nos limit...

This article1 seeks to interpret the representation of Mary’s house shaped like a palace in some images of the Annunciation from an iconographic point of view, in the light of Greek Patrology, I start by analyzing some texts used by many Greek-Eastern Fathers to interpret several expressions such as domus Sapientiae, palatium Regis, aula regia, dom...

This article seeks primarily to highlight the first level of the introspective stage of Saint Bonaventure’s Aesthetics, as highlighted in Chapter 3 of his Itinerarium mentis in Deum. According to this Franciscan philosopher, if man considers his three spiritual powers, memory, intelligence, and will inside his soul, he will be able to contemplate i...

The current article addresses the topic of the symbolic identification of the Virgin Mary as a door according to a double possibility, namely, as an open door and as a shut door. This implies designating Mary simultaneously as ianua coeli and as porta clausa. These two possibilities suggest very different, though complementary, doctrinal meanings....

El presente artículo pretende destacar los comentarios exegéticos de algunos Padres, teólogos e himnógrafos latinos desde los siglos VI al XV sobre diversas expresiones metafóricas, como templum Dei, tabernaculum, domicilium Deitatis, arca, y otros términos similares referidos a espacios o espacios. contenedores reservados para la divinidad. Hemos...

St. Bonaventure asserts that man can ascend contemplatively to God through three phases. The first one is to contemplate God outside us by appreciating the corporeal things as vestiges of the deity: this is the “immanent” phase of Bonaventure’s Aesthetics, framed by the first and second stages of contemplation of God. The second phase consists of e...

This paper seeks to highlight the various interpretations that, before the Second Council of Constantinople (May-June 553), many Latin Church Fathers gave on several metaphorical expressions, such as “God’s temple,” “sanctuary,” “tabernacle,” “ark,” and other similar terms referring to spaces or containers reserved for deity. To address this issue,...

This article seeks to highlight the doctrinal meanings enclosed in the representation of the house of Mary in the form of a palace or an aristocratic residence in seven images of the Annunciation of the 15th century. To justify our iconographic interpretations in this sense, we based on the analysis of many exegetical comments with which many Latin...

The images of the Annunciation of the 14th and 15th centuries often include in their scene a bed with evident prominence, which allows us to conjecture that this piece of furniture contains some symbolism of particular relevance. Given such unusual detail, this article seeks to interpret the possible doctrinal meanings that this bed could provide....

The purpose of this article 1 is to interpret the deep doctrinal meanings underlying the bed that appear in the symbolic depiction of some images of the Annunciation of the 14th and 15th centuries. To do so, we adopt two complementary methodological strategies, based on comparative analysis. In essence, from the outset we analyze an abundant corpus...

The current article tries to interpret the deep doctrinal meanings derived from the visual and textual metaphors related to the ray of light, the Sun, and other light elements. underlying the symbol of the beam of light depicted in the images of the Annunciation of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. To undertake this goal, we will follow two m...

This article 1 seeks to highlight the doctrine of St. John Damascene about the Death and Assumption of the Virgin Mary. To expose his thoughts as completely as possible, we analyze in detail three homilies that this syrian author produced on these topics. We can see in them that the Damascene, even assuming many elements from the Jerosolimitan oral...

This article seeks to highlight the essential symbolic Christian meanings hidden in some textual metaphors of the Old Testament, such as templum Dei, «house of Wisdom», aula regia, Sancta Sanctorum, «tabernacle», «altar», «ark». To make our approach clearer: first of all, we will analyze some exegesis offered on these metaphorical terms by certain...

This article aims to highlight a large amount of exegeses proposed from 5th to 10th century by many Fathers of the Greek-Eastern Church on the shut gate (porta clausa) of the temple revealed to Ezekiel during the exile of the Jewish people in Babylon: a closed door facing East, through which God enters and leaves without opening it, and which, afte...

Para el actual nº 14 de la revista De Medio Aevo decidimos reservar su sección “Monográfico” al sugestivo tema de la mujer en la Edad Media, en las múltiples variantes teóricas y existenciales en que ella puede manifestarse, desde la cruda realidad hasta la sublimada idealización. Confiábamos, en efecto, en que, debido a su palpitante actualidad y...

This article aims to unveil the doctrinal meanings that many Church Fathers and theologians have deciphered in some Old Testament terms such as templum, tabernaculum, domus Sapientiae, arca and other similar expressions related to sacred spaces or containers. In many specific cases, they have interpreted these expressions as metaphors or symbols of...

Pablo de Paz Amérigo & Ignacio Sanz Extremeño (eds.), Eulogía. Estudios sobre cristianismo primitivo. Homenaje a Mercedes López Salvá, Madrid, Guillermo Escolar Editor, 2018, p. 345-367. ISBN: 978-84-17134-59-4

Resumen. De entre los elementos que han ido progresivamente complejizando las incontables representaciones de la Virgen María a lo largo de la historia, este artículo pretende destacar e interpretar conceptualmente uno de especial significación doctrinal en algunas imágenes marianas durante los siglos XIV y XV: el templo, en cuyo interior algunos a...

Este artículo pretende poner en luz la influencia que la doctrina de San Juan Damasceno (c. 675-c. 749) sobre la muerte, la resurrección y la asunción de la Virgen María podría haber ejercido sobre las complementarias iconografías medievales de la Dormición y la Asunción de María al cielo. El trabajo tiene dos vertientes esenciales. En la primera,...

This article seeks to highlight whether and to what extent the medieval iconography of the Dormition of the Virgin reflects the central or peripheral details of three apocryphal texts whose authors are Pseudo-John the Theologian, Archbishop John of Thessaloniki and Pseudo-Joseph of Arimathea. To do this, we will put in direct relation the narrative...

As a consequence of the fact that the New Testament mentions few episodes and very few details of the real life of the Virgin Mary, among the Eastern Christian communities several apocryphal legends, that tried to supply this hermetic silence around the birth, infancy, youth, adulthood and death of the Mother of Jesus, arose during the first centur...

The mariological thesis of the conceptio per aurem, according to which the Virgin Mary would have conceived Jesus Christ trough the ear at the instant of hearing the angel's heavenly message announcing her that she would be mother of the Son of God incarnate without losing her virginity, has received so far very few academic studies rigorously grou...

Resumen La creciente importancia del control de la calidad en la investigación exige trabajar en el diseño de Sistemas de Garantía de Calidad relacionados con la gestión de proyectos. Este trabajo describe el modelo de gestión de la calidad del Consorcio MUSACCES (financiado por la CAM y la UE) y de su proyecto de investigación sobre la mejora de l...

The mariological thesis of the conceptio per aurem , according to which the Virgin Mary would have conceived Jesus Christ through the ear at the instant of hearing the angelʼs heavenly message announcing her that she would be mother of the Son of God incarnate without losing her virginity, has received so far very few academic studies rigorously gr...

Discarding from the beginning, for unjustified and inoperative, the entrenched convention which interprets the lilies in the iconography of the Annunciation as a mere symbol of " chastity " or " virginity " , this article proposes two new theological explanations of such flower in that biblical image. After analyzing the leading role of the stem of...

Within the countless writings on the iconography of the Annunciation there are many that describe the presence and function of its protagonists (Mary, the angel Gabriel, the Holy Ghost in the form of a dove, sometimes God the Father), or the symbolic meaning of some elements present in the scene (a bouquet of lilies, a book of prayers, etc.). On th...

One of the most endearing and significant innovations introduced by the Italian Trecento painters in their renderings of the Coronation of the Virgin is the presence of musician angels around the throne. Their presence is inspired by a solid patristic and theological tradition reflected in hymns and songs describing sounds of musical instruments ex...

En abierto desacuerdo con la convencional interpretación del lirio en el tema iconográfico de La Anunciación –ilustrado con gran pertinencia en las diez pinturas góticas españolas que aquí analizamos—, el presente artículo propone dos nuevas explicaciones teológicas de dicha flor en esa escena bíblica. Nos basamos para ello en numerosas y concordan...

Análisis críticos formal y conceptual de la obra plástica del pintor y dibujante colombiano David Manzur.

Investigación que, basándose exclusivamente en fuentes primarias, documenta la presencia y la actividad profesional de numerosos pintores, dibujantes y litógrafos extranjeros en Venezuela durante el predomonio político de los hermanos José Tadeo y José Gregorio Monagas, quienes se alternaron en la Presidencia de la República de 1847 a 1858.

Amplia conversación con el pintor en torno a su formación sus temas pictóricos, sus diversos períodos estilísticos, sus preocupaciones estéticas, sus influencias recibidas, sus intenciones de críticas social, y sobre muchos aspectos de su personalidad y su conducta social.

Análisis estilístico y conceptual de cada una de las obras pictóricas de Salvador Dalí exhibidas en 1992 en la exposición del Centro Cultural Consolidado de Caracas. Los análisis se complementan con un texto introductorio general sobre la trayectoria artística de Dalí, y una breve biografía del artista.

Resumen Basándonos en el doble recurso complementario de comparar la obra de arte con sus fuentes literarias y con otras imágenes artísticas del mismo tema, intentamos en este artículo descifrar los significados conceptuales que pudieran encontrarse en la escena del tímpano de La Puerta del Amparo en la catedral de Pamplona. Como resultado de esa...

This paper proposes an interpretation of the flowers and other plant motifs present in some late medieval images of four Marian themes: the Virgin Enthroned with Child, the Virgin of Humility, the Sacra Conversazione and the Coronation of the Virgin. By supplementing certain unjustified conventions that, without any argument, see these flowers as n...

This paper (which complements two previous works of our authorship) proposes to interpret the bouquet of lilies in medieval images of The Annunciation in two essentially intertwined dogmatic meanings, related to Christology and Mariology. Contradicting conventional “explanations” of such flower in this Marian scene, we found our proposal in many an...

As is well known, St. Francis of Assisi heroically embraced evangelical poverty, renouncing material goods and living in abject poverty, in imitation of Jesus Christ. Furthermore, through his writings and oral testimonies collected by his disciples, the saint fervently urged Christians to live to some degree voluntary poverty , of which Christ was...

el Trecento italiano a la luz de fuentes patrísticas y teológicas Flos campi et lilium convallium. Tercera interpretación del lirio en la iconografía de La Anunciación en el Trecento italiano a la luz de fuentes patrísticas y teológicas Flos campi et lilium convallium. Third interpretation of lily in the iconography of The Annunciation in Italian T...