
Cultural and religious iconography projected through video mapping in urban and rural parishes
of Cotopaxi
Revista Científica Interdisciplinaria Investigación y Saberes , / 2023/ , Vol. 13, No. 3
form, the cultural or religious context were identified, taking into
account the popular, agricultural, saints and festivities aspects. We
also took into account multimedia effects such as plugins, animations
and layer adjustments of the editing software.
On the other hand, the iconographic method implemented by the
German historian Erwin Panofsky, this method was aimed at
discovering hidden symbolisms behind the apparent naturalism of a
work and under three categories of study: pre-iconographic,
iconographic and iconological, which includes a complex meaning
both internal and external of the visual graphics, this is because the
author developed his method taking as a reference to visual semiotics
(Panofsky, 2003, p. 45). The pre-iconographic description analyzes the
work within the formal stylistic field, appealing to the fundamental
information that the senses can offer us. The initial and simple
presentation of an object may contain and encompass others, for
example, a high altar, a frontispiece, a mausoleum, a temple, etc., in
which other smaller elements intervene and are part of a "whole". It
consists of detailing the most relevant aspects that can capture our
senses, namely: height, width, depth, the elements that make up the
whole, some aesthetic particularities, characters, landscapes, even the
colors, materials and decorations, etc (Armendariz, Sosa and Puca,
2013, p.31).
Iconographic analysis refers to the accompanying elements, attributes
and characteristics of the work. At this level, which is somewhat more
complex, it corresponds to the guide to analyze, in an orderly manner,
each of the components that are part of a work, its characters and
their meanings, their orders, their complexities, etc. Hernández, M. R.
(2019). For the case study, it delves into the particular analysis of its
characteristics and its valuation as part of the heritage legacy of the
nation. In such virtue, it corresponds to the guide to transmit not only
those visual aesthetic elements, but also their intrinsic meanings in the
general work, as an aesthetic set, as well as in each detail subliminal
messages that must be transmitted. Nothing is there without a visible
and hidden meaning (Armendáriz, Sosa and Puca, 2013, p.31).
The iconological analysis studies the cultural context in which the work
was executed, trying to discover the meanings that each of its
constituent elements had in its time and historical context. It delves
into the techniques, fashions, influences and the entire environment