El eco pintado

The painted echo tells us about those special paintings in which other images are reproduced inside. Paintings containing drawings, posters, maps of distant continents, old photographs, other paintings or even mysterious mirrors. Paintings that, by including other images within the limits of their frames, enter the field of what we know as "meta-painting" and raise questions that go beyond the mere representation of reality. Through these pages, works by masters such as Gauguin and Picasso, Sofonisba Anguissola and Van Eyck, El Greco and Van Gogh, Vermeer and Velázquez parade, offering readers a different approach to issues that, a priori, may seem alien to art history. western, but which are actually related in suggestive and unexpected ways. Thus, in this narrative essay, artistic and pictorial themes are merged with others of the most recent relevance -the climatic emergency, lateral thinking, the dangers of vanity or the rise of medievalism-, to show us how images created decades ago, or even centuries, are able to connect directly with contemporary thought and pose dilemmas that still challenge us today.