"La femme aux serpents". Evolución iconográfica de la representación de la lujuria en el Occidente europeo medieval
ISSN: 1698-4374
Year of publication: 2010
Issue Title: Pecado-Crimen y Penitencia-Castigo en la Edad Media a través de la literatura y el arte
Issue: 7
Pages: 137-158
Type: Article
More publications in: Clío & Crímen: Revista del Centro de Historia del Crimen de Durango
Abstract
This study presents a number of approaches and new iconographic material for the analysis of one of the most widespread representations in medieval sculpture: �la femme aux serpents�, which was employed to illustrate the sin of lust and its punishment. Its antecedents, as has been pointed out by many specialists, come from images of Tellus in Roman iconography. The main purpose of this work is to analyse its iconographic evolution, and in particular its semantic transmutation.