École Espagnole (c. 1560) - Saint Pierre Martyr

- Oil on canvas. Magnificent interventions of re-stretching and restoration from the mid-20th century.

- This magnificent altarpiece painting from Castilian folio, more than likely a commission by the Dominican Inquisitors, represents a fierce and dazzling synthesis of two artistic worlds in Spain during Charles V's era. In it, the figure of Saint Peter of Verona, the hammer of heretics and first martyr of the Order of Preachers, becomes the perfect vehicle to express the authority of the Church. The late Gothic Flemish root, visible in the meticulous realism of the details of his Dominican habit and the severe piety of a face that accepts fate, is here swept away by the impact of the Cinquecentist models.

The composition alludes directly to his martyrdom in 1252, when he was ambushed by Cathars on the road from Como to Milan; according to hagiography, after receiving a blow with a machete to the head (the attribute that usually crowns his iconography), the saint used his own blood to write the Credo in the earth before dying. In this canvas, the martyr is endowed with a monumental quality typical of Mannerist schools, bursting forth with an sculptural vigor that transcends the traditional serenity of Gothic. This mutation of forms, where the eloquent spirit of medieval times fuses with Renaissance grandeur, is a telling example of how 16th-century Spain used Italian aesthetics to give body to the unwavering faith of its inquisitorial saints.

- Image dimensions without frame: 61 x 88.5 cm / 80 x 100.5 cm with exclusive custom frame.

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