Art Of The Day Weekly
#400 - from 1 October 2015 to 7 October 2015
Luis de Morales, Pietà, oil on panel, 126 x 98 cm, 1560. Madrid, Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
Morales, the Divine
MADRID – A native of Extremadura, like Zurbarán after him, Morales (1510-1585) was a very prolific painter but was almost monomaniac: he only painted holy images, and this gave him his nickname. Crucifixions, Holy Families, Flights into Egypt were abundant in his work, an this work was precise and almost metallic, like that of the Flemish who inspired him. Works on loan from other museums and cathedrals have come to reinforce the 19 works at the Prado, loans from cities in Spain, from New York, Minneapolis or Dresden show us a holy painting of which we had largely lost all understanding.
• El Divino Morales at the Prado museum, from 1 October 2015 to 10 January 2016.