El pincel y la pluma en la Vida de sor Estefanía de la Encarnación
This article examines the importance of the visual in the spiritual autobiography of the painter-author Sor Estefanía de la Encarnación (ca. 1597–1665). Looking at Estefania’s account of her artistic development in her Vida (1631), we explore the ambivalence she betrays towards her talent, which she...
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| description | This article examines the importance of the visual in the spiritual autobiography of the painter-author Sor Estefanía de la Encarnación (ca. 1597–1665). Looking at Estefania’s account of her artistic development in her Vida (1631), we explore the ambivalence she betrays towards her talent, which she describes as both a divine gift that led her to God and as a distraction that took her from prayer. We also consider the role, and limits, of sacred images in her devotional practice. We then turn to the pictorial language she uses to convey her religious visions: a language rooted in the tradition of the Song of the Songs and lyric poetry “a lo divino”. Throughout, we are attentive to the inspiration she draws from Spain’s great mystical writers, Saint John of the Cross and Saint Teresa of Avila. Like Saint Teresa and other holy women, she wrote her Vida at the behest of her confessor, who likely regarded Estefanía herself as a potential candidate for sainthood. |
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