Applied Emblems in the Cathedral of Lugo: European Sources for a Spanish Cycle Addressed to the Virgin Mary

In Applied Emblems in the Cathedral of Lugo, Carme López Calderón explores the emblematic programme found in the Chapel of Nuestra Señora de los Ojos Grandes (Galicia, Spain), consisting of fifty-eight emblems painted c. 1735. Making use of a wide range of printed sources, the author delves into the meaning of each emblem and provides an all-encompassing interpretation of this cycle, which can rightly be described as the richest and most complete programme of Marian applied emblematics in the Iberian Peninsula.

Carme López Calderón, Ph.D. (2014), University of Santiago de Compostela, is a Lecturer and Researcher at that university. She has extensively published on Marian applied emblems, including the awarded monograph Grabados de Augsburgo para un ciclo emblemático portugués (Universitat de València, 2016).