La estética del silencio: iconografía femenina en la época isabelina

Abstract

In 1859, the femininity concept was based on the silence as synonymous of beauty or understanding quality which was also based on the concept of happiness devised by a romantic middle class. This new attitude about happiness which was shown in that time, is related to the idea of progress and contemporary, to the role given to the family and the work and all the theoretical mechanism that the middle class, early at the XVIII century and after the XX century, had created to consolidate its position and perpetuate its social, economic, politic and ideological intervention.