03 — ARTWORK
The Vision of St Peter of Nolasco
ZURBARÁN, Francisco de · 1629 →
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas, 179 x 223 cm
- TYPE
- Religious
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COMMENTARY
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The painting and its companion-piece was commissioned by the Mercedarian Monasterythe complex of buildings used by a community of monks. Among the main elements of the complex are the church, cloister, chapter house (used by the governing body), refectory (dining room) and dormitory (sleeping quarters). in Seville shortly after the canonization of Pedro Nolasco who four centuries before established a lay Order for freeing the Christians from Moorish captivity.
In his vision Peter of Nolasco, in the white robe of his Order, sees the New Jerusalem showing by an angel. The heavenly city with its tower resembles to contemporary Ávila.
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