Languages and iconography of immoderacy and love by Ferdinand VII in the transformations of the crisis of the dynasty

Abstract

This article analyzes how, from the regal vacancy in Spain, Ferdinand VII's images worked as vehicles capable of resolving conflicts and served to release opinion and communication in the dispute previous to the May Revolution. They generated multiple and contradictory feelings. In such a scenario, Ferdinand´s image became a sacred image that in no time incarnated a great variety of emotions: love, passion, disappointment and eventually oblivion.