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We analyze some works of art representing St. Teresa of Ávila, within the corpus of sermons, paintings and sculptures of the New Spain, to investigate its proximity or their uniqueness regarding the metropolis. We confront texts and images to enrich reading and show some artistic repertoires where he enrolled to the figure of the holy reformer of Carmel.

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The relationship between literature and reality in the Middle Ages can be considered from several dimensions. One of the most important cultural elements of the medieval period is the visual representation of reality found it literary texts, not only through the presence of miniatures in the manuscripts, but especially through the description of realia in the same text. The encyclopedic tradition helps to intertwine this close relationship between the outer representativeness and the inwardness of the text, a new interpretation of the Horacian’s ut pictura poiesis. The «Tirant lo Blanch» is a fictional text full of iconic references to contemporary reality, which in this study are made clear visually.

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El mayor encanto amor includes an enigmatic character that is almost hidden in this spectacle play.Timanthes, who only speaks some twenty lines in the play, represents an onomastic mnemonics, as his name reminds a learned spectator of the famous painter of classical antiquity. Calderón includes him as a character in Darlo todo y no dar nada and alludes to him in other works such as La vida es sueño. Timanthes can be seen as a way to praise Cosimo Lotti, the «painter» or scenographer of the play. But he also refers to the playwright who manipulates the text so as to hide political meanings in a play performed at the palace of the Sun King, Philip IV. Since Timanthes´ most famous painting is The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, where Agamemnon´s facial expression is veiled, we can locate clear parallels with the veiling of Achilles in Calderón’s play. Veiling/concealing errors or defects is Timanthes’ trademark.