El universo pictórico de Bartolomé Bermejo

Few late Gothic painters are more fascinating than Bartolomé Bermejo (c. 1440-1501). On the one hand, we have the undeniable quality and attractiveness of his pictorial creations, the result of an excellent mastery of the oil technique and the ability to conceive particular and surprising compositions, full of curious details. On the other hand, we find ourselves before a painter with a hectic life and professional career, determined by a restless personality but also by his Judaeo-Conversionist origins and by his ability to establish relationships with clients with sophisticated interests and tastes. The contributions collected in this volume constitute a multifaceted review of the artistic personality of the Cordovan painter, as they deal with formal, technical and iconographic issues as well as others of a professional, social and promotional nature, not forgetting the painter's relations with the Valencian and Flemish artistic world. A heterogeneous and, at times, heterodox dissection of Bermejo which, after the monographic exhibitions held at the Prado Museum, the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya and the National Gallery of London between 2018 and 2019, seeks to definitively establish this master in the pantheon of the great creators of the fourteenth century.

Joan Molina Figueras, coordinator of the volume, is head of the Department of Spanish Gothic Painting at the Museo Nacional del Prado, and specialises in the study of visual culture in the late Middle Ages in Spain.

ISBN: 9788484805557