The portrait put on stage: Ovillejos by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and mannerist aesthetic

Abstract

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz proposes a reflection on the complexities of verbal composition through her poem Ovillejos, a tribute to the Spanish writer Jacinto Polo, implicitly posing the question of how to write poems that address the particular topic of female portraiture and where she stages a painter at the time of her work, the portrait of Lisarda that configures a strange loop because it shows to a certain muse the painting where it executes the portrait through the figuration of artistic spaces. This poem unfolds in the staging of the execution of a painting and at the same time seeks to show the imaginary portrait of a woman, Lisarda, writes a poem, namely Ovillejos.