Iberia - Iconosphere of Religious Otherness: The “Sodomitic Moor” in 16^th-Century Spanish Painting

This text proposes a genealogy of the trope of the “Sodomitic Moor” in medieval Iberian culture and its consolidation from the Modern Age onwards, coinciding with the imperialist/colonialist expansion towards America. The object of the study are the literary sources that describe the martyrdom of Saint Pelagius in the 10^th century (Raguel and Rosvita of Gandersheim) and the visual representations of the same subject in the 16^th-century Spanish painting, specifically the images that make up the altarpiece of Saint Pelagius painted by Master of Becerril, which is now in Malaga’s Cathedral. The analysis of the sources will be carried out considering the contributions of queer theory to the study of medieval Iberian cultures through authors such as Mark Jordan or Gregory Hutchenson. As for the visual analysis, the text reviews the historiography of Spanish art history on the images that make up this altarpiece, as well as other contributions such as Francisco de Holanda’s theory of painting, the persecutions for sodomy that were consolidated at the end of the 15^th century with the approval of the Pragmatic against Sodomy by the Catholic monarchs, or the principle of ‘interconnected Otherness’ defined by Victor Stoichita, which allows us to understand how the Muslim religious Other is interconnected with the racialized Indian Other from the end of the 15^th century onwards.

Iberija - ikonosfera religijske: Drugosti Maur sodomist u španjolskome slikarstvu 16. stoljeća

Tekst donosi prijedlog genealogije tropa „Maur sodomist“ u srednjovjekovnoj iberijskoj kulturi te njegovo ukorijenjenje od modernog doba nadalje, što se podudara s imperijalističkom/kolonijalnom ekspanzijom prema Americi. Predmet proučavanja su literarni izvori koji opisuju mučeništvo Svetog Pelagija u 10. stoljeću - Raguel i Rosvita iz Gandersheima - te vizualni prikazi iste teme u španjolskom slikarstvu 16. stoljeća, preciznije prikazi na oltarnoj slici Svetog Pelagija koju je naslikao majstor iz Becerrila, a koja se danas nalazi u katedrali u Malagi. Analiza izvora provedena je u okviru queer teorije u proučavanju srednjovjekovnih iberijskih kultura, s posebnom referencom na autore poput Marka Jordana ili Gregoryja Hutchensona. U tekstu se kritički osvrće na historiografiju španjolske povijesti umjetnosti o spomenutoj oltarnoj slici, ali i na druge priloge poput teorije slikarstva Francisca de Holande ili progona zbog sodomije koji su uspostavljeni krajem 15. st. prihvaćanjem Pragmatike protiv sodomije od strane katoličkih vladara. Također, raspravlja se i o načelu „međupovezane Drugosti“ Victora Stoichite, koje omogućuje razumijevanje načina na koji je muslimanski religijski Drugi povezan s rasno obojenim indijanskim Drugim od kraja 15. stoljeća.