Inquisición; condena; religión; cruz; sambenito; Museo del Prado; siglo XIX; goyesco; Lucas Velázquez - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 15:39:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Inquisición; condena; religión; cruz; sambenito; Museo del Prado; siglo XIX; goyesco; Lucas Velázquez - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Condemned by the Inquisition https://historylab.es/condemned-by-the-inquisition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=condemned-by-the-inquisition Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:41 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/condenado-por-la-inquisicion/ A Goyaesque work by Lucas Velázquez that reflects a certain religious fanaticism towards the Inquisition

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]]> 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.

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