La iconografía del hombre salvaje en la platería de los siglos XV y XVI

Abstract

Wild man's iconography experienced a successfully reputation in Europe, between the 14th century and the beginning of the 16th, imposing itself in various domains (material, literary or ephemeral) and covering a wide geographic area. Portuguese precious silver dishes, produced in this period, shows that the representations of wild man present different iconographic characteristics, with a number of origins and reasons that must be the result of different pictorial contexts. It is our proposal, in this paper, to explain these iconographic differences and demonstrate that functions and meanings of the subject are not universal and static but could change even in the same support material.