Iconografía de Santa Teresa

Abstract

Se presenta el proyecto de iconografía teresiana que he llevado a cabo en las tres últimas décadas, partiendo del deseo de conocer los temas y tipos iconográficos de una de las mujeres más importantes en la Historia de la Iglesia, la fundadora del Carmelo teresiano, a la que se han dedicado numerosas representaciones artísticas, lo que hizo que la tarea no fuera fácil por el ingente material a examinar que, finalmente, se ha dado a conocer a la comunidad científica en cuatro volúmenes que recogen los objetivos planteados, "La herencia del espíritu de Elías" (2016) que incardina a la reformadora en el Carmelo de la antigua observancia, "Las series grabadas" (2017) que permitían la trasmisión de temas y tipos, que se abordan en el tercer volumen "De las visiones a la vida cotidiana" (2018), para concluir con la "Iconografía de los reformadores descalzos y la estampa alegórica" (2919).

This is a presentation of the Teresian iconography project I have worked on for the last three decades, based on a desire to discover the themes and iconographic types of one of the key female figures in the history of the Church, Saint Teresa, the founder of the Teresian Carmel. Countless artistic representations have been made of her, which makes it a daunting task to collate them, due to the huge amount of material that has had to be studied. However, this has finally been made available to the scientific community in four volumes which cover the four main objectives of the study: "The legacy of the spirit of Elijah" (2016), which situates the reformer in the context of the old Carmelite doctrine, "The series of engravings" (2017), which led to the transmission of themes and types, which are, in turn, addressed in the third volume "From the visions to everyday life" (2018), and finally the "Iconography of the discalced reformers and the allegorical illustrations" (2019).