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
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
Ferdinand VII of Spain.[4]
References
- ^ "Catalogue entry" (in Spanish).
- ^ "Prado site" (in Spanish).
- ^ "Article in 'La Croix". La Croix (in French). 2010-02-27.
- ^ Article.