Nadia Mariana Consiglieri
François Chevalier
Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET
Beyond the Hell. Pictorial Dissemination and Variations of the Dragon in Spanish Visual Culture (15th Century- Early 16th Century)
Nadia Mariana Consiglieri is an art historian. She holds a PhD in History and Theory of the Arts by Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires and a PhD by Université de Recherche Paris Sciences et Lettres - PSL Research University-, Mention on History, Texts, and Documents - École Pratique des Hautes Etudes-. She is a Research Assistant at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) (position in process). She is Full Professor of History of the Visual Arts - Middle Ages and Associate Professor in charge of History of the Visual Arts - Antiquity (FFyL UBA). She was awarded several international scholarships, including one by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SMB) for a research stay at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin (2023) and another by the Coimbra Group Scholarship Programme for a stay at the Università di Bologna (2024). Her current research focuses on depictions of the dragon from the iconography of warrior saints to its links with the reptile universe in cabinets of curiosities and the perspectives of early natural science in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Projet de recherche
The aim of this research is to examine the different versions of the dragon in paintings on wood, its re-elaborations and dissemination in the 15th and early 16th- century Iberian Peninsula. The important ties with artistic centers such as Flanders and Bruges will be addressed with artists, patrons and works of art from Italy, France and Germany. Dragons and demons were depicted in the warfare iconography of warrior saints, as well as several paintings involved dragons placed in minor and almost imperceptible zones like tiles, pottery, fabrics and furniture. Was it intended to create more convincing scenarios to show their usual existence in the ornamentation and design of everyday objects? Another purpose consists in tracking the factual existence of such models of dragons in contemporary survival objects and materialities, and even in designs of them to understand their scope and reuse in paintings. Not only paintings belonging to Spanish museum collections will be studied, but also from international collections as those which are part of the Argentinian museum heritage in Buenos Aires.
Sélection de publications
2024. “Sangre, dolor y muerte. Modos de representar la violencia de san Jorge sobre el dragón en la pintura catalanoaragonesa del siglo XV”, e-Spania – Revue interdisciplinaire d’etudes hispaniques médiévales et modernes, 48, s/p. [En ligne] doi.org/10.4000/120mx
2023(2024). “On Dragons and Lizards in the Reliquary Statuette of Saint George in the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin”, Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, 64, pp. 61-72. doi.org/10.57894/jbm.2023.1
2023. “De serpientes y dragones. Reflexiones en torno a las trayectorias iconográficas de la anfisbena en la Edad Media”, in Ángel Pazos López and Ana María Cuesta Sánchez (eds.), Las imágenes de los animales fantásticos en la Edad Media, Gijón, Trea, pp.433-459.
2022. Los animales en los Beatos. Representación, materialidad y retórica visual de su fauna apocalíptica (ca. 900-1248), Buenos Aires/Barcelona, Miño y Dávila editores - Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Editorial de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Universidad de Buenos Aires.
2020. El dragón de lo imaginado a lo real. Su simbolismo y operatividad visual en la miniatura cristiana de la Plena Edad Media hispánica, Buenos Aires/ Barcelona, Miño y Dávila editores.
