Saturday, January 16, 2016

Levitation at the Prado, 17th century

Vicente Carducho
St. Peter's Apparition to the First Carthusians
1626-32
Prado

The force of gravity, pulling bodies firmly downwards to the earth's surface, sometimes failed to control the bodies of divinely favored humans. Special laws of physics operated for them, in olden times. The pictures in this group are part of the copious evidence.  

Vicente Carducho
St Jean Birelle Levitating
ca. 1626-32
Prado

Francisco Herrera
Triumph of St. Hermenegild
1654
Prado

Vicente Carducho
Musical Angels appear to St Hugo
1632
Prado

Vicente Carducho
Death of the Venerable Odón de Novara
1632
Prado

Vicente Carducho
Appartion of the Virgin to Pedro Faverio
1632
Prado

Vicente Carducho
Apparition of St Bruno to Rogerio Guiscardo
ca. 1626-32
Prado

Vicente Carducho
Apparition of Basilio de Borgoña to Hugo of Lincoln
1632
Prado

Italian painter
Penitent Magdalene
17th century
Prado

Alonso Cano
St. Benito's Vision of the Globe and Angels (detail)
1658-60
Prado

Alonso Cano
St. Benito's Vision of the Globe and Angels
1658-60
Prado

Claudio Coello
The Triumph of St. Augustine
1664
Prado