Abstract
An article about the Spanish art historian Juan Antonio Ramírez (1948-2009). The article focuses on Ramírez's key topics and scientific approach.
It shows the evolution of his thinking from his first works about graphic novel all the way to his research on baroque architecture and modern art. The article analyzes one of Ramírez's main interest - the iconography of place (la iconografía del lugar).
Ramírez researched topics such as visualizations of fantastic and utopist buildings, architectonic ekphrasis or film sets. The article also analyzes Ramírez's idea of the art history as an iconic-verbal discipline and his effort to include popular culture and mass media into the art history.
The article is a theoretical introduction to the translation of Ramírez's paper Space and fantasy. Fantastic literature versus fantastic architecture.