Pinturas infernales y retratos grotescos: viaje por la iconografia de los "Sueños"

The analysis of the complete cycle of the "Sueños" must take into consideration a reading based on the importance of the quevedian visual and plastic portrait, on the relationship with the works of some painters (Bosch and Arcimboldi, in particular) and on the practice of an occult ekfrasis that gives the text fullness and intensity. The iconographic power of the large literary portraits, of the rapid illustrations, or the composite images – characterized by a juxtaposition of scenes and characters – allow the building of an imaginary window opened to the earthly and heavenly world, a great multi-coloured painting, whose pincel is the ingenious pluma of don Francisco. So the intersemiotic translation can be a medium to explore and understand the author’s enigmas and “agudezas”.