Des captifs et des martyrs au Maroc. Étude d’un thème iconographique franciscain: les Martyrs du Maroc, son instrumentalisation et sa diffusion en Europe et en Amérique
Captives and martyrs in Morocco. Study of an iconographic franciscan theme: the Martyrs of Morocco, its instrumentalization and its diffusion in Europe and America
Abstract
The unwise spectator, in a rather naive way, may believe that the iconographic issue known as “The Martyrs of Morocco" - a frequent theme in Portugal, Italy, Germany and Spain as well as in other countries of America- stages an almost contemporary event of Portuguese expansion in North Africa. It is, at the same time, the consultation of the bibliography and study of a Francisco Henriques' painting, a Flemish painter working in Portugal in the 16th century, allow us to understand a distance between the historical fact and its representation. This gap is significant. We are trying here to retrace a symbolic and a spatial path covering the entire Mediterranean and a temporal one, taking place along almost eight centuries, up to the present day.
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