Bodegón : estudio de un término artístico

This study, starting from the origins of the lemma bodegón, sets out to analyse the reasons for its choice in the arts, the meanings it was attributed and its semantic evolution along the centuries. For this purpose, a series of Tratados artísticos (artistic treaties) from the XVII century, the time of utmost flourishing of the genre, were taken into account. Starting from the XVIII century and until the end of the XIX century, its registry as an artistic term in general lexicographic works – both academic and non-academic – is studied. For the XX and XXI century, this study is focused solely on academic dictionaries and on seven dictionaries on artistic terms published between 1973 and 2001. Since the term naturaleza muerta (still life) enters the artistic terminology starting from the XIX century, and it is considered a synonym of bodegón, its evolution is studied here as well.