El cuerpo muerto del rey Juan II, Gil de Siloé, y la imaginación escatológica. (Observaciones sobre el lenguaje de la escultura en la alta Edad Moderna)

Abstract

The funerary monument of the parents of the Catholic Queen, Elisabeth, in Miraflores (Burgos) is one of the artistic enterprises in which her personal involvement is more evident. Its original tipology in the shape of a star, and its androphagous imagery, are analized here in the context of the scholastic soteriology, with two complementary arguments. On the first place, the importance of the "sculpture metaphor" in the presentation of the resurrection of the body. Secondly, the celestial representation of the body of the the resurrected in the "imaginaire" of this period. On this ground, the original solution of Gil de Siloé appears to be a personal reflection of the relation body-sculpture in funerary art, as to the way to experience it.