Among the commissions that Correa made for the former monastery of the Bernardine fathers at Santa María la Real de Valdeiglesias are a group of three panels with scenes from the Passion of Christ. Their representations in circular compositions and many stylistic similarities indicate that they belonged to the same set. These three panels depict three successive stories: Pilate washing his
Few French paintings from the early fifteenth century have survived and works of this quality and importance are exceptionally rare. The nettle leaves on the sleeves of the donor, who appears here presented by Saint Agnes, have allowed him to be identified as Louis I d’Orléans (1372-1407), brother of the French king, Charles VI and regent from 1393. The high quality of the almost miniaturis