An Unpublished Letter from the Spanish Noble Pedro de Tapia to His Painter Friend Hector Crucer ; Un'inedita lettera del nobile spagnolo Pedro de Tapia all’amico pittore Hector Crucer

In the paper a long and unpublished letter, traced in the State Archive of Naples, is published. The letter was sent, in March 1600, from don Pedro de Tapia y Ribera to Naples to the Flemish painter Hector Crucer from Antwerp. In the letter precise iconographic and technical indications were given to the painter to execute three canvases with a Franciscan subject. In the text it’s hypothesised that the triptych was intended for the church of the convent of the Discalced Franciscans of Loja (Granada), founded by don Pedro de Tapia and his wife, doña Clara del Rosal Alarcón, a native of the Anda... Mehr ...