“De una encina embebido en lo cóncavo”. The Soledades and the Hermitic Iconography ; “De una encina embebido en lo cóncavo”. Las Soledades y la iconografía eremítica

Both Díaz de Ribas and Fernández de Cór- doba believed the title of Soledades referred to the wilderness of the Fathers of the Desert: “The desserts of Egypt, where those ancient monks lived, were called ‘solitudes’ because of the ‘wilderness’, which means the same”. Is this true? Alternating between philology, art history, and aesthetics this paper attempts to show: 1) That the landscape of the Soledades does not draw its main inspiration from any type of “Flemish painting”, but specifically from that of the landscapes with hermits in the style of Bosch’s Temptations of Saint Anthony the A... Mehr ...