2025 № 4 (55)
Renaissance and the Renaissances, or What the Spanish Renaissance Revived
UDC 792.2; 821
BBC 84(0)5; 85.334.3(3)
DOI: 10.51678/2226-0072-2025-4-12-43
For cit.: Silyunas V.Yu. Renaissance and the Renaissances, or What the Spanish Renaissance Revived. Hudozhestvennaya kul’tura [Art & Culture Studies], 2025, no. 4, pp. 12–43. https://doi.org/10.51678/2226-0072-2025-4-12-43. (In Russian)
Silyunas Vidmantas Yu.
D.Sc. (in Art History), Professor, Head of the Ibero-American Art Department, State Institute for Art Studies, 5 Kozitsky Lane, Moscow, 125375, Russia
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1374-9013
Renaissance and the Renaissances, or What the Spanish Renaissance Revived
Abstract. The article examines the little and insufficiently studied, or completely unknown features of the artistic culture and spiritual life of Spain during the Renaissance — the specifics of Spanish humanism, including in relation to the Italian Renaissance. The research is based on an extensive corpus of works by representatives of the Spanish Renaissance and the works of modern Spanish-speaking researchers.
The author highlights the important role of the culture of the sounding word in Spain which led to the accessibility of Renaissance ideas to the broad masses of the population. The article analyses the active appeal of cultural and artistic figures to the historical past of the country, starting from the time of the rule of the Goths. The Renaissance aspiration to the ideal was projected onto the past of its own people, and this apology for national traditions and their mythopoeic interpretation by playwrights, poets, and philosophers affirmed national identity and a sense of personal involvement into the historical process.
Keywords: metamorphoses of humanism, various Renaissances, the sounding word, the resurrection of the past, Spain
References:
Lope de Vega F. Durochka [The Fool], transl. M. Donskoi. Lope de Vega F. Sobranie sochinenii: V 6 t. [Collected Works: In 6 vols.], comp. N. Tomashevsky. Vol. 4. Moscow, Iskusstvo Publ., 1963, pp. 173–334. (In Russian)
Burke P. El Renacimiento Europeo. Barcelona, Críticа, 2000. 256 p.
Camille M. Arte gótica: Visionos gloriosos. Madrid, Akal, 2005. 192 p.
Carvallo L.A., de. Cisne de Apolo. Madrid, CSIC, 1958. Т. I. 292 р. Т. II. 246 р.
Cuesta Torre M.L. Magos y magia, de las adaptaciones artúricas castellanas a los libros de caballerías. Señales, Portentos y Demonios: La magia en la literatura y la cultura españolas del Renacimiento, eds. E.L. Alberola, A. Montaner Frutos. Universidad de Salamanca, SEMYR, 2014, pp. 325–366.
Kristeller P.O. El pensаmiento renacentista y sus fuentes. México, Fondo de cultura económica, 1982. 366 p.
López Pielow F. De los mitos clásicos al discurso del Barroco: paralelismos entre Ovidio y Calderón de la Barca. Los pre-textos del teatro áureo español: Condicionantes literarios y culturales, eds. G. Artnscheidt, M. Tietz. Madrid, Iberoamericana, Vervuert, 2019, pp. 143–160.
Martin Romero J. La cortesía verbal en los libros de caballerías: El caso de Belianís de Grecia. Bulletin Hispanique, 2021, w. 123–1, pp. 85–113. https://doi.org/10.4000/bulletinhispanique.12309.
Matas Caballero J. “La fuerza de las historias representadas”. Reflexión sobre el drama histórico: Los reyes de la historia de España en los teatros del Siglo de Oro. Tiempo e historia en el teatro del Siglo de Oro: Actas del XVI Congreso Internacional, eds. I. Roune Soupault, P. Maunier. Aix-en-Provence, Presses universitaires de Provence, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pup.4553. Available at: https://books.openedition.org/pup/4553 (accessed 15.05.2025).
Rico F. El sueño del humanismо. Madrid, Alianza, 1993. 202 р.
Roaro J. El humanismо renacentista español de los siglos XV y XVI, visto a través de la Retórica, la reflexión filosófica y la búsqueda de la virtud: Tesis doctoral. Universidad de Salamanca, 2017. 244 р.
The Renaissance Philosophy of Man, eds. E. Cassirer, P.O. Kristeller, J.H. Randall Jr. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1948. 404 p.
Vives J.L. De ratione dicendi, ed. L. Riber. Pennsylvania State University, 1967.
Received 29.08.2025
Accepted 17.09.2025
