Melancolía y tristeza. El doliente como motivo artístico a través de los tiempos.Del Cristo de la Humildad y Paciencia al Gran Poder de Dios

  1. Clementina Calero Ruiz 1
  2. Domingo Sola Antequera 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Laguna
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    Universidad de La Laguna

    San Cristobal de La Laguna, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01r9z8p25

Book:
XXIV Coloquio de Historia Canario-Americana
  1. Elena Acosta Guerrero (coord.)

Publisher: Casa de Colón

Year of publication: 2021

Congress: Coloquio de Historia Canario-Americana (24. 2020. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)

Type: Conference paper

Abstract

The Melancholytopic in Art History has always aroused interest. The best well known representatios was a 1514 engraving by Albrecht Dürer entitled «Melencolia I». This work of art the type of creation spread during fifteenth and sixteenth centuries around Europe,and later on in America. It was known as the Christ of Humility and Patience, but during the eighteenth century was renamed as the Jesus of the Great Power, at least in the Canary Islands.