Nicolau Borràs

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Holy Family with St. Anna , Museu de Belles Arts de València
The Adoration of the Magi , Nicolau Borrás, private collection, around 1570
The Last Supper (fresco in the refectory of the monastery of Sant Jeroni de Cotalba ).

Nicolau Borràs Falcó OSH (1530-1610) ( Castilian Nicolás Borrás Falcó ) was a painter of the Spanish Renaissance in the Kingdom of Valencia .

biography

He was born in Cocentaina (Kingdom of Valencia, now Alicante Province ) in 1530 as the son of Jeroni Borràs and d'Úrsula Falcó. He is considered one of the best painters of Valencian monastery painting. At a young age he visited Valencia to study with Vicente Juan Macip and became one of his most outstanding students. Borràs' works are similar to those of Macip and were thought to be his. In his posting in the Hieronymites - Monastery Saint Jeromi de Cotalba in Gandia he liked it there so much that he asked for membership instead of his pay.

The monks of the Hieronymites of Cotalba called him to paint the larger altar painting of the church. This led to his membership in the order. The age painting consisted of 14 parts around the sculpture of Saint Jerome . In addition, he created other altarpieces for the chapels of the church and the chapter house, as well as other paintings for the monastery and four for the stations of the lower cloister. The only work remaining in the Klos, however, is The Last Supper as a fresco in today's oil mill, formerly the dining room of the monastery.

He received the costume in 1575 and made his vows the following year. Three years later he spent time with the Capuchins at the Franciscan monastery of San Juan de Ribera, near Valencia. After his return he spent the rest of his life at the monastery of Saint Jeroni de Cotalba and left twelve paintings in the church alone and gave his own money to sculptors and craftsmen to beautify the monastery.

Borràs worked a lot for church institutions in Valencia and Madrid, among others . His paintings hung in the Cathedral of Valencia and in the Jeronimos Monastery of San Miguel de los Reyes ("Christ on the Pillar" and "The Holy Virgin"). Others hung in churches in Gandia, Aldaya, and Ontinyent . The Museu de Belles Arts de València houses around 50 paintings by Borràs mainly from Gandia and San Miguel. In one of the pictures ( Archangel Michael drives souls into purgatory and hell ) Borràs is said to have depicted himself kneeling as a monk in a white robe.

He died at the age of about 80 in the Koster Saint Jeroni de Cotalba near Gandia.

See also

literature

  • Benito Domenech, Fernando: Los Ribalta y la pintura valenciana de su tiempo. Valencia-Madrid, 1987, ISBN 84-505-6705-X , pp. 34-43.
  • Benito Domenech, Fernando (ed.): Cinco siglos de pintura valenciana ( Five Centuries of Valencian Paintings ), Obras del Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, Madrid, Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia-Fundación Central Hispano, 1996, ISBN 84-920722 -6-1 .
  • Various authors: Nicolás Borrás Falcó. Ayuntamiento de Cocentaina (Alicante), 2010.
  • Mateo Gómez, Isabel, López-Yarto, Amelia y Prados García, José María, El arte de la Orden Jerónima: historia y mecenazgo , Madrid, Encuentro, 2000, ISBN 84-7490-552-4 .

Web links

Commons : Nicolau Borràs  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The paintings of Nicolás Borrás in the Monastery of Sant Jeroni de Cotalba
  2. ↑ "El arte de la Orden Jerónima: historia y mecenazgo". Authors: Isabel Mateo Gómez, Amelia López-Yarto, José María Prados García. Encuentro, 2000 ISBN 978-84-7490-552-6 .
personal data
SURNAME Borràs, Nicolau
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borràs Falcó, Nicolau (full name); Borrás Falcó, Nicolás
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish Renaissance painter in the Kingdom of Valencia
DATE OF BIRTH 1530
DATE OF DEATH 1610