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 Heavenly Jerusalem from the Book of Revelation, shown in the top left and pointed to by an angel to his right.[2] In 1808 the canvas was bought by canon López Cepero who gave it and the rest of his collection to Ferdinand VII of Spain in 1821.[3]
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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)