La formación de la imagen de los Siete Príncipes. Descripción diacrónica, fuentes y hermenéutica

Abstract

The present study deals with the first appearance of the image of the Seven Princes. Studying the tradition behind this image, I analyze how the iconographic type of the Seven Princes, evolved both from the point of view of composition as well as iconography. I also treat the interpretation of the image and the cult of these archangels. To this end, the study resorts back to the main sources of angelology and analyzes the most important works of angelic tratise writers from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.