Saint Peter Nolasco's Vision of Saint Peter the Apostle
Saint Peter Nolasco's Vision of Saint Peter the Apostle is a 1629 oil painting on canvas by the Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán, now in the Prado Museum in Madrid. It is signed at the bottom FRANCISCUS Đ ZURBARAN/ FACIEBAT. 1629..
It shows Peter the Apostle crucified upside-down appearing to Peter Nolasco, founder of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy, which redeemed Christian slaves from Muslim owners during the Reconquista period in Spanish history. When he was prevented from making a hoped-for trip to Rome to visit St Peter's tomb, he received a consolatory vision from St Peter instructing him to convert Spain.[1] It forms a pair with the same artist's The Vision of Saint Peter Nolasco, in which the saint dreams of the Heavenly Jerusalem.
Both works were produced the year after Nolasco's canonisation for the Convent of Mercy in Seville, which he had founded and which now houses the city's Museum of Fine Arts.[2] The two works formed part of a group of 22 paintings commissioned by the monastery from various artists to mark the canonisation - only eleven now survive.[3] In 1808 the work was bought by Manuel López Cepero, dean of Seville Cathedral, who thirteen years later gave it to Ferdinand VII of Spain.[4]
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- Christ on the Cross (1627)
- Saint Serapion (1628)
- Displaying the Body of Saint Bonaventure (1629)
- The Vision of Saint Peter Nolasco (1629)
- Saint Peter Nolasco's Vision of Saint Peter the Apostle (1629)
- The House in Nazareth (1630)
- The Vision of Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez (1630)
- The Apotheosis of Saint Thomas Aquinas (1631)
- Saint Margaret of Antioch (1631)
- Immaculate Conception (1632)
- Saint Agatha (1633)
- Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose (1633)
- The Young Virgin (1633)
- The Archangel Gabriel (1634)
- Hercules and the Hydra (1634)
- Hercules Fighting the Nemean Lion (1634)
- Hercules Separates Mounts Calpe and Abylla (1634)
- The Death of Hercules (1634)
- The Defence of Cádiz Against the English (1634)
- Saint Elizabeth of Portugal (c. 1635)
- Agnus Dei (1635–1640)
- St Andrew (1635–1640)
- Saint Apollonia (1636)
- Saint Lawrence (1636–1639)
- Still Life with Pots (1650)
- Saint Luke Painting the Crucifixion (c. 1650)
- St Hugh in the Carthusian Refectory (1655)
- St Francis (1659)
- St. Francis in Ecstasy (1658–1660)
- The Virgin Mary as a Child Praying (1658–1660)
- Jacob and his twelve sons (1641–1658)
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