IMAGES AND WRITINGS IN THE CHANGES OF THE CATHOLIC COUNTER-REFORMATION IN WESTERN ART

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Abstract

This article will attempt to discuss the transformations that Western Christian
art underwent during the Catholic Counter-Reformation. The objective was to think and
analyze a bibliography that highlighted this social/cultural phenomenon in the art of the
modern period. To this end, a small part of Marian iconography was analyzed in order
to understand these changes over time. In this sense, the images had to adapt to the
new European reality, especially the paintings that represent the Virgin Mary. The
methodology followed by us here was the bibliographic review, as well as, we used
visual documentary sources that represented these cultural transformations in this
period, therefore, iconographic sources and textual sources were used to enter this
European urban social world.