La ilustración de los escritos teresianosgrabados de las primeras ediciones

Abstract

Seventeenth-century books were not illustrated with such assiduity and in such numbers as in the previous century. However, their scarcity, far from reducing our interest in the subject, highlights those works which contained images, as well as their significance, the function which they fulfilled within the book, their relationship with the text, their technical worth, their artistic value and, of course, the excellence of the work, their author and their commissioner. Some of the first editions of the works written by and about Saint Teresa of Ávila, belong to this chosen group, books which not only contain illustrations but which are also, to a large extent, calcographical and, from an iconographical point of view, representative of illustrated Baroque books.