ABSTRACT
According to Mara Leticia Snchez Hernndez, the chapel is a clear example of how Catholic women had access to the bible via the reading of a religious text, and how this same text is transformed into an image to be contemplated upon as a pedagogical tool by a community. Martn Carrillo's text functions as a conduit that provides its female audience mediated access to the bible in a post-Tridentine context. Unlike Carrillo or Herrera Barnuevo, Guevara's explicit instructional intent is neither spiritual nor moral but rather political: her text is meant to create a feminine political sisterhood on which she bases the historical past and future of Spain. In Carrillo's frontispiece Eve, Sarah, and Rebecca represent motherhood and domesticity, while Judith, Jael, Esther, and the Queen of Sheba signify political action. Carrillo's text does not strictly distinguish the domestic and the political as separate spheres of influence; rather, it interlaces one area of activity with the other.
