Abstract

LOPEZ GARCIA, J. Jesús. The Lord of Lightning. New Forms for an Ancient Iconology. Academia XXII [online]. 2022, vol.13, n.25, pp.102-122.  Epub July 23, 2023. ISSN 2594-083X.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fa.2007252xp.2022.25.83154.

In the mid twentieth century, years before the Second Vatican Council, a new era of religious construction began in Aguascalientes, Mexico, using current construction methods and modern mechanisms of plastic significance. Establishing a new paradigm in the diocese in architectural matters. Innovative geometries and configurations, and within the resulting collection, the temple of the Lord of the Lightning has a special connotation for detaching itself from the trend without iconographic ornaments, and on the contrary, appealing to iconology through a cover that is still far from the traditional composition of bodies and streets, refers directly to ancestral images of the Christian repertoire in a superimposed sculptural composition, resulting in a disconcerting and unique building in Aguascalientes, groundbreaking and paradoxically traditional as well.

Keywords : Lord of the Lightning; Ancient Iconology; New Form; Aguascalientes.

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