Fernando Gallego

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Fernando Gallego (also Gallegos , * around 1440 in Salamanca , † after 1507 in Salamanca) was a Spanish painter between the late Gothic and early Renaissance .

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Fernando Gallego was probably influenced by the Dutch painting of Dierick Bouts and the contemporary German drawing of Martin Schongauer during his apprenticeship . These influences can be seen in the earliest work he has received, the Ildefonso reredos from 1468, which is located in the cathedral of Zamora . Gallego founded a workshop in Salamanca in 1473. Most of the orders documented there have been lost, including six winged altars that he is said to have made for Coria Cathedral from 1475 onwards .

His pictures are characterized by an inconsistent, often disproportionate design, which suggests a strong division of labor . In realistic and detailed scenes depicted most effective heads, sumptuous robes and moved gesticulating body shown. Examples of this can be found in the Pietà ( Museo del Prado , Madrid ) and the panels of the Marian Triptych ( Museo Diocesano , Salamanca).

From 1479 to 1493 Gallego made frescoes for the University Library of Salamanca on which heraldic figures and allegorical allusions to ancient mythology can be seen. They and the blessing Christ from the Laurentius Altar of the Church of San Lorenzo el Real in Toro (Museo del Prado, Madrid), created after 1492, can be classified in the Italian early Renaissance.

gallery

  • Pietà (1470)
    Museo del Prado , Madrid

  • Madonna of the Catholic Kings (1490–95)
    Museo del Prado, Madrid

  • The Heaven of Salamanca (1490)
    University of Salamanca

  • Christ Blessing (after 1492)
    Museo del Prado, Madrid

literature

  • JA Gaya Nuño : Fernando Gallego. Madrid 1958.
  • Robert M. Quinn: Fernando Gallego and The Retablo of Ciudad Rodrigo. Tucson, Arizona, 1961.
  • F. Felipe Ferrero: Las tablas de Fernando Gallego en Arcenillas del Vino (Zamora). Valladolid 1971.
  • Wolf Stadler u. a .: Lexicon of Art 5th Gal - Mr. Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1994, ISBN 3-86070-452-4 , pp. 6-7.

Web links

Commons : Fernando Gallego  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Stadler: Lexicon of Art. Pp. 6-7.


personal data
SURNAME Gallego, Fernando
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gallegos, Fernando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1440
PLACE OF BIRTH Salamanca
DATE OF DEATH after 1507
Place of death Salamanca