Vehicles of Vision in the Representation of the Sacred

Abstract

This essay has as an objective to reconstruct the relationship that
is established between the individual and the production of
images meant to “visualize” the spaces of vision where the
encounter of the human with the sacred is carried out. As an
example we have taken the graphic production of the mystic Santa
Rosa de Lima (Saint Rose of Lima 1586-1617) whose
emblematic diagrams dating from the beginning of the 17th
century are an important testimony in which the working of an
interdependence between the representation of interior images
and the manifestation in exterior images can be established. In
this psycho-physiological process the body as a means intervenes
along with certain exterior vehicles that act as corporal
extensions and have the purpose of physically materializing the
images produced in the visions of the saint from Lima.