The Vision of Saint Peter Nolasco
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| Artist | Francisco de Zurbarán |
| Year | 1629 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Location | Museo del Prado, Madrid |
The Vision of Saint Peter Nolasco is a 1629 oil-on-canvas painting by the Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán, now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.[1] It and its pair Saint Peter Nolasco's Vision of Saint Peter the Apostle were both commissioned by the Mercedarians for the Merced Calzada Abbey the year after pope Urban VIII's canonisation of Peter Nolasco, who had founded both the Order and the Abbey. The Order also commissioned twenty other paintings for the occasion, though only Zurbarán's pair and nine others still survive.
Vision shows Nolasco dreaming of the
Ferdinand VII of Spain in 1821.[3]
References
- ^ "Catalogue page".
- ^ "Article in La Croix" (in French). 2010-02-27.
- ^ "Prado entry" (in Spanish).