Una tabla inédita de Nicolau Falcó y la iconografía de La aparición de Cristo resucitado a su madre con los padres del Limbo
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: In this paper we present a previously unpublished painting by the Valencian painter Nicolau Falcó, held in a private collection in Barcelona. Of unknown origin, it represents the risen Christ's appearance to the Virgin accompanied by the patriarchs rescued from limbo. It is not a strange iconography, although it is unusual in late Gothic and Renaissance painting. Besides the stylistic study of the work and its place in the context of the Valencian painting in the early sixteenth century, this paper analyzes the documents known about the saga of the Falcó. Moreover, this study delves into the iconographic representation of the painting and textual sources that support it. These include the Vita Christi by Isabel de Villena, which describes in detail the passage and, from its editio princeps of 1497, contributed to the episode broadcast in Valencian pictorial cycles.
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W186785075