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Article: Present dogs, absent witches: illustration and interpretation of "El coloquio de los perros".
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- Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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THROUGHOUT EARLY MODERN EUROPE, imagery permeated many fields of discourse. In order to communicate religious and political messages, spiritual and secular authorities made recourse to various types of visual displays, such as statuary and engravings, to appeal to the populace at large. In Spain, as José Antonio Maravall explains: "Utilizando los medios plásticos, la cultura del siglo XVII puede llevar a cabo, con la mayor adecuación, sus fines de propaganda" (501). Emblem literature in Latin and vernacular languages adeptly merged text and image. At the same time, widely promulgated printed matter, such as the pliegos sueltos on the Iberian peninsula and the image" ...