Iconografia sobre as Inquisições Ibéricas e o tema de São Domingos e dominicanos

Abstract

The present work aims to present the role of iconography as a rhetorical instrument capable of legitimizing the violence practiced by the Iberian Inquisitions, in addition to disseminating symbols that reaffirmed moral values ​​and embedded a certain “pedagogy of fear” in the popular imagination of the late 15th century. One of the objectives here is to demonstrate that not only convictions and executions were experienced by the Inquisition, but that the extensive and systematic use of images was part of the program to combat heresy, greatly contributing to shaping the morality of Christians during the Modern Age. In this way, inquisitorial iconography was instrumentalized and mobilized to convince the faithful to behave in accordance with the interests of the Church. Being a tool that, through the education of the look, shaped the imagination of an entire society.