SAINT TERESA OF ÁVILA. OIL ON CANVAS. SPANISH SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY.
Decorative Antiques -
Reference: ZF1330
Saint Teresa of Avila. Oil on canvas. Spanish school, 17th century. Oil on canvas showing a woman in a Carmelite habit joining her hands in a gesture of prayer and looking up at a dove (Holy Spirit) which is also identified with a text in capital letters (S. Teresa D Xesú, Saint Teresa of Jesus) and accompanied by another nun in the habit of the same order, as was common in works destined for convents (dowries, donations, etc.). It is inspired by the iconography that emerged from the “true effigy” of Friar Juan de la Miseria from 1576 (Monastery of the Discalced Carmelites of Seville, Spain), a fundamental model for art and whose first series was that of Cornelius Galle and Adrián Collaert (Antwerp, 1613) that accompanied the Vita Beatae Virginis Teresiae a Iesu.
· Size: 50x4x62,5 cms. Int 42x54 cms
700 €
