This is one of Bernat’s early works and is very similar to the work of Bermejo in the anatomy, colour and slim proportions of the figures in it -Saint John, the Magdalene, Longinus- as well as the lit [+]
This work formed part of the altar piece of the church of Santo Domingo de Silos in Daroca (Zaragoza) together with Bermejo’s Saint Dominic of Silos (P1323). It shows one of the two stories about the [+]
After Saint James the Greater was beheaded, his followers and disciples took his body to the ship that would take him from Jaffa to Galicia. Behind this scene, Herod Agrippa and his court watch what i [+]
After being brought to Iria, in Galicia, by boat -the scene visible in the background of the painting- Saint James’s body was carried in a cart pulled by two bulls. In this painting, Athanasius and Th [+]