Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 42258
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Lopez , Maria Isabel Rodriguez,
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  • Title: La personificación del mar: evolución y transformaciones iconográficas del Mundo Clásico al Medioevo
  • Source: Revista Digital de Iconografia Medieval 9, 17 ( 2017): Pages 125 - 140. Available open access on the Revista Digital de Iconografía Medieval site: https://www.ucm.es/data/cont/docs/621-2017-06-23-Personificaci%C3%B3n%20del%20mar.pdf.
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Classical Influences Personification Sea in Art
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  • Abstract: In the present work, we propose a journey through the images that served as personifications of the sea-world, from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, stressing out specially its iconographic and semantic transformations. The occidental art preferred a masculine personification, derived from the image of the Titan Oceanus, whereas the Byzantine artists chose, in most cases, to associate this element to Thetis’ fertility, therefore imagining a feminine sea. Taking identical prototypes as a model, the diversity of interpretation between Orient and Occident is a clear evidence of the analogies and differences that existed in the spiritual universe of their respective cultural spheres, that, nevertheless, never stopped feeding each other constantly.
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  • Author's Affiliation: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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  • Year of Publication: 2017.
  • Language: Spanish
  • ISSN/ISBN: 2254853X