The analysis of The Torn Canvas I aligns with Aby Warburg’s iconographic formalism because both seek to connect the work of art to a timeless symbolic system that is renewed and transformed based on the cultural context. Velázquez, according to this interpretation, not only creates a courtly portrait, but uses a visual vocabulary deeply rooted in collective memory, making Las Meninas a link in the chain of archetypes that Warburg identified as the essence of cultural history.
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