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• «Being absent Carlos, / what difference do the festive voices applauding him make if he hears nothing?»: Sor Juana’s loas for King Carlos the Second’s birthday

  R. Rice

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2013). Vol. 1, (1), 1

  
  

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  Starting in 1650, Calderón de la Barca assigned a new role to the ‘loa’, elevating it artistically to the level of the ‘auto’. In America, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz followed the Spaniard’s example by aggrandizing the panegyric loa and including the essential elements: allegorical characters, hermetic fragments, emblematic reminiscences and a sensorial setting. These loas are pieces that adhere to certain templates to glorify power and exalt authority. These templates are constituted of compositional paradigms that structure the design, in part or as a whole, of the stylistic and argumentative architecture, as Arellano correctly asserts about the Auto Sacramental but also applicable to Sor Juana’s last half of the 17th century panegyric loas. I propose an analysis of the five loas that the nun composed for Carlos the Second’s birthday that consists in identifying and comparing the compositional paradigms, to be able to formulate a three act structure based on the functional identification of the paradigms.

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  Starting in 1650, Calderón de la Barca assigned a new role to the ‘loa’, elevating it artistically to the level of the ‘auto’. In America, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz [...]

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• Sacred Celebration and Political Power: Iconography of the Austrians as Advocates of the Eucharist and the Immaculate Conception in Latin America

  Á. Chenel

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2013). Vol. 1, (1), 1

  
  

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  In a Catholic monarchy, it is to be expected that religion played a transcendentally important role. Not just from a spiritual standpoint, however, but far beyond that, it came to be one of the basic premises of the political and dynastic identity of the Habsburgs. Based upon this, a complex theological conception of politics was constructed, and all the available means of rhetoric and persuasion in Baroque society were mobilized for propagandistic dissemination. In particular, art at the service of faith became a useful instrument as the «broadcaster» of all visually transmitted ideology. In this respect, the two pillars that supported the Pietas hispanica —distinctive signs and mystic unifying agents— carried special importance:  Eucharistic and Immaculist devotion professed by the monarchs of the House of Austria. By this means, the political-confessional and propagandistic complex discourse that irradiated from the heart of the Monarchs to American territory was articulated. This article will look at some of the most significant images in relation to this theme, integrating them into the political-religious discourse of the time.

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  In a Catholic monarchy, it is to be expected that religion played a transcendentally important role. Not just from a spiritual standpoint, however, but far beyond that, it [...]

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• Aspects of authority and power illustrated by the Portuguese canonization celebrations of Ignatius of Loyola and of Francis Javier Cristina Osswald Universidade Nova de Lisboa

  C. Osswald

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2013). Vol. 1, (1), 1

  
  

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  The canonization of the founder of a Catholic religious order constitutes a milestone in the affirmation of authority by that order. As concerns to the Society of Jesus, it was a double canonization. Such an uncommon fact as this, clearly both demonstrates the power the Society had at the time at the Curia, and explains its intention of celebrating the auto-glorification. Its scenography, thus, aimed more to praise the triumph of the Society of Jesus through the use of allegorical figures such as Religion, Fame, Honour or Pomp, than anything else. The iconography of such festivities framed the first Jesuits saints within the history of the Society. Thus, the Portuguese jesuits paid homage, by means of the staging, to the beatified ones, the first jesuits and the martyrs. Moreover, the set pointed out its main devotions, characteristics and activities such as missionary work and teaching activities. Often canonizations of a certain figure were intimately related to political power in Early Modern Time. Therefore, Portuguese Jesuit festivities exalted, with a great vigour, feelings of nationalism during the Iberian Union’s time. In order to transmit the various aims, the organizers did not hesitate to use all Baroque celebrative resources (poetry, theatre, dance, music and visual arts). In other words, particularly luxurious and grandiose celebrations, including light, sound, colour, and odour spectacles or events (reference be made to the vases with perfume inside the churches) took place by that time.

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  The canonization of the founder of a Catholic religious order constitutes a milestone in the affirmation of authority by that order. As concerns to the Society of Jesus, it [...]

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• Cuevas ludens. Rhetorical and graphic games in Homage to Quevedo (1969)

  E. Marigno

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2013). Vol. 1, (1), 1

  
  

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  From Homage to Quevedo (1969) of the Mexican artist Jose Luis Cuevas, I present the question of the game in Francisco de Quevedo, and, especially, in the illustrations that have inspired J. L. Cuevas. I put special attention in the rewritings of Quevedo’s universe in the drawings of J. L. Cuevas. I use critical and methodological references inspired in structuralism, formalism and constructivism, to that I add the contributions of Hans Belting, George Didi-Hubermann, W. J. T. Mitchell, and of the philosophers of postmodernism like G. Deleuze or J. Derrida.

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  From Homage to Quevedo (1969) of the Mexican artist Jose Luis Cuevas, I present the question of the game in Francisco de Quevedo, and, especially, in the illustrations that [...]

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• Sonnets, Litanies and Praise in three Festivities in honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe (1601-1602)

  B. Mariscal

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2013). Vol. 1, (1), 1

  
  

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  When relating his journey, Friar Diego de Ocaña describes two festivities celebrated in Villa de Potosí, both dedicated to the enthronement of images of the Virgin painted by himself. The festivities included processions as well as literary pieces to honor the Virgin. Ocaña notes that among the poetic texts composed in veneration and praise of the Virgin, there were also prayer-like compositions that were sung during the processions, at the end of the Eucharistic celebration, during the Salve Regina, or during those moments when the image was placed upon the altar. In the present article particular attention is given to various texts, specifically to those which accompanied the festivities that took place with the same pomp and circumstance as those ceremonies celebrated for the feast of Corpus Christ.

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  When relating his journey, Friar Diego de Ocaña describes two festivities celebrated in Villa de Potosí, both dedicated to the enthronement of images of the Virgin painted [...]

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• Hipogrifo, 3.2 (2015). Table of Contents

  Á. Baraibar

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 1

  
  

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  Hipogrifo, 3.2 (2015). Table of Contents

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• Presentation. The Political and Literary Discourse in the Relationships between Spain and Portugal

  J. Usunáriz

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 1

  
  

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  Presentation

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• Anuario Calderoniano, 8 (2015): «Calderón in his Laboratory»

  Á. Baraibar

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 1

  
  

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  New about the publication of the Anuario Calderoniano, 8 (2015).

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• The Collections «Batihoja» and «Peregrina» by the Instituto de Estudios Auriseculares (IDEA)

  Á. Baraibar

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 1

  
  

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  New about the Instituto de Estudios Auriseculares's Collections.

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• Review of María Fernández López (Marcia Belisarda), Obra poética completa, ed. Martina Vinatea Recoba, New York, IDEA, 2015, 483 pp. ISBN: 978-1-938795-03-9

  D. Ortega

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 1

  
  

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  Book review: María Fernández López (Marcia Belisarda), Obra poética completa, ed. Martina Vinatea Recoba, New York, IDEA, 2015, 483 pp. ISBN: 978-1-938795-03-9

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