Good Friday Procession in the Colosseum in Rome
1864. Oil on canvas.On display elsewhere
This depiction of Good Friday at the Colosseum comes from the artist’s sojourn in Rome, thanks to the allowance he was granted from the Provincial Government of Alicante - obtained in 1863 - for his stay at the Academy there. Both artist and work are defined by the Romanticism which characterises the period, as expressed through its varied plastic and other forms of artistic production, in a complex and varied “mixture”. Painting became endowed with a new sensitivity and spirit, framed in a universe of a multitude of issues treated by the artist with utter emotion
Espí Valdés, Adrián, Las Bellas Artes en la provincia de Alicante en el siglo XIX. Canelobre, Instituto de Cultura "Juan Gil Albert", 2014, p.16-33 [23]
