FERNANDES, Vasco
(active 1500-1542 in Viseu)

St. Peter

c. 1530
Oil on wood, 213 x 231,3 cm
Vasco Museum, Viseu

This panel is the result of many accumulated experiences. It is in this painting that the artist best wields his creative and technical powers: in the rigour of its composition, in the volumetric expression of form, through a sensitive and well-calculated distribution of light and the projection of shadow over the monumental throne, in the extraordinary characterization of the face, and in the forms of the exuberant rains.




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