At War with Primavera: Botticelli and Calderón's El sitio de Bredá
1999; American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese; Volume: 82; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/346283
ISSN2153-6414
Autores Tópico(s)Visual Culture and Art Theory
ResumoIn El sitio de Bredd, Calder6n makes use of Italian Renaissance art in order to construct a subplot that softens the cries of war. This counter-movement to the well known horrors of war serves first of all to humanize the Spaniard who had acquired a reputation of cruelty in the Netherlands. It also allows a text of war to humanize the face of the enemy. Indeed, a haunting woodland scene in the first act can be viewed as a dramatic ekphrasis of Botticelli's Primavera. The action in Calder6n's scene corresponds to the left and right sections of the painting: from Mercury's message on the left to the rape of Chloris/Flora on the right. The three Graces in both painting and play stand for the Senecan notion of liberality. It is through acts of generos- ity that bellicose impulses are transmuted into a vision of harmony and abundance.
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