Radix, truncus, gradus. Afinidades de un árbol de Jesé del tardogótico funerario (Zamora, sepulcro de Juan de Grado, hacia 1500)

Abstract

In order to depict a “space of time” in Dr. Grado’s tomb, it was used a visual vocabulary which brought the naturalism of sculptors belonging to the German nobility, together with the fashionable typologies and religious iconography, claiming a tradition of Hispanic promo-tional pictures. This Jesse Tree meant to represent the memory of the past, the legitimacy of the present and the beatitude of the deceased, his spiritual and temporary life, dynamic and everlasting times, the official discourse of his history and the dogma which approved themselves. This is a theological, liturgical, devotional iconography, that is being inter-preted through chronicles and medieval law books.

Keywords

• sculpture
• funeral image
• late-gothic art
• jesse tree