#art, Bartolomé Bermejo

His name was Bartolomé de Cárdenas, but he preferred to be known as Bartolomé Bermejo, perhaps because he was redhead… He was a Spanish Gothic painter born in Córdoba in 1440. Not much is known about this painter whose work belongs to the Hispano-Flemish style (1469-1516) and who spent most of his life painting within the lands of the Crown of Aragon. His work was always very detailed and bordering on realism. Of course, due to the time he lived in, his painting is religious. He started in Valencia, but worked more in Zaragoza and Barcelona.

I think that these two I’ve selected are worth a good look, not just at the religious theme, which of course is prevalent, but at the detail and spirituality that it carries relative to its time, which can still be felt.

«St. Michael Triumphs over the Devil» is from 1468. It is conserved at the Louvre museum in Paris.

This painting, «Maria Lactans» or «Virgo Lactans» is part of an altar piece dedicated to the Lactating Madonna and it is from the Church of the Convent of Santo Domingo of València. It dates from 1465-1470.

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