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| Saint Dominic presiding over an Auto-da-fe
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| Saint Dominic presiding over an Auto-da-fe
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BERRUGUETE, PEDRO - Paredes de Nava, Palencia (Spain), 1445 - Madrid? (Spain), 1503
Saint Dominic presiding over an Auto-da-fe
1491 - 1499. Oil on panel.
Museo del Prado
Referenced on pp.18-19, Granada 1492 (Campaign Series Number 53) by David Nicolle, 1998
Part of the famous painting of St Dominic presiding over an Auto da Fé, or burning of heretics, by the Spanish artist Pedro Berruguete. The foot soldiers are equipped in southern Spanish Andalusian style, while the horseman is equipped as a light cavalryman a la jinete.
(Prado, Madrid)
