Throughout his career Eugenio Lucas showed an admiration for the Goyaesque. Despite the fact that the Tribunal del Santo Oficoi had been abolished by María Cristina de Borbón by royal decree in 1834 during the government of Francisco Martínez, the painter continued the theme for which he was particularly fond. In the present work, a man covered with a coroza and dressed in a sayón with a sambenito around his neck holds a crucifix while the people shout. However, the representation of this work shows a series of practices that were taken up during Modernism, which ended up being obligatorily relegated in the aforementioned year.
Collection: Images
Project: 10. Churches and religions in Europe., 7. Persecuted by justice and powers: rebels, political dissidents and criminals in the history of Europe.
Chronology: XIX
Scope: Secondary education, Baccalaureate, University
Resource type: Image
Format: Oil on canvas (51 x 41 cm)
Source: Museo del Prado (Madrid)
Language: Spanish
Date: 1860
Owner: Álvaro Romero González (Modernalia)
Identifier: P004412
Copyright: Museo del Prado (Madrid)
Abstract: A Goyaesque work by Lucas Velázquez that reflects a certain religious fanaticism towards the Inquisition
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