Philostrato (Jun 2023)
A Burial of Saint Jerome from the Main Altarpiece of the Monastery of San Jerónimo de Valparaíso (Córdoba), a New Work of Alejo Fernández
Abstract
In this article, it is presented an unpublished work by the painter Alejo Fernández, active in Córdoba and Seville between 1497 and 1545. It shows the Burial of St Jerome and, according to different evidences, it belonged to the main altarpiece of the Monastery of San Jerónimo de Valparaíso (Córdoba). Likewise, various documents about the work certify that this important altarpiece was commissioned around 1503-1508 by the patrons Diego Fernández de Córdoba and Juana Pacheco to be installed in the main chapel of the monastic church. In this same place the patrons were buried together with other relatives. Finally, it has been possible to track the fortunes of the painting, which was integrated into the Spanish Gallery of Louis-Philippe, King of France, inaugurated at the Musée du Louvre in 1838.
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