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The present article intends through an iconographical and iconologycal analisys of the paintings Hercules and Omphale and Samson and Delilah painted by Diego López el Mudo demonstrate its interest as documentary source in order to comprehend how desire was understood and depicted in Spanish Baroque Culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our goal is to collect the examples of representation of Santiago el Mayor in Santiago de Chile taking into account its provenance and use. For this we work with the documentary sources in the Cathedral and the main convents, the texts of colonial period, the current bibliography, and the fieldwork with the works of art. The result is a list of twenty pieces that allows us to reflect on the small presence of images of the Apostle in a city attributed to his name. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study of the picture of the "Virgen del Salto" is a contribution to the field of Colonial Art in the Quito Royal Audience. Its anecdotal appearance during the XVII century in the "Asiento de Tacunga" has become a legend. However, this study suggests the historical moments that determined its development, the graphic sources that influenced this composition and finally the iconographic study of several paintings found in the research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present work tackles the iconography and simbolic study of the entrance doors of the historic churchs of Cuenca, in Ecuador. As a true letter of introduction of the building, that works of art form for the believers a previus clear the way of spiritual preparation, based on figurative and emblematic representations in wood carving, that combine religious, political, expert and popular aspects, and in this way this doors determine a homogeneous combination of remarkable quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present article we revise the influence of models from Murillo in the work of the Sevilian painter Bernardo Lorente German, we analyze his contribution to the genre of portrait and present some unpublished paintings here attributed to Lorente. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To speak of the importance that Francisco de Zurbarán has had among the artists of the New World, is to refer to one of the subjects that have been approached more profusely since the artistic historiography accentuates his interest in rescuing the nexos that are given between authors, themes and styles developed between artists, both peninsular and overseas, in an era, the seventeenth century, of brilliant results in the artistic field. In this case we make a review of one of the most influential artists from Extremadura. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the study of the original sculptural and pictorial works of Our Lady of Guadalupe de Extremadura in Peru, since their arrival and enthronement in different cities of our country, iconographic analysis particular formal characteristics and transformations which have survived since then to the present in Pacasmayo, Lima and CuscoThe article focuses on the study of the original sculptural and pictorial works of Our Lady of Guadalupe de Extremadura in Peru, since their arrival and enthronement in different cities of our country, iconographic analysis particular formal characteristics and transformations which have survived since then to the present in Pacasmayo, Lima and Cusco. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]